Release of inattentional blindness by high working memory load: Elucidating the relationship between working memory and selective attention

Cognition

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 400-408

  De Fockert, Jan W ^a   Bremner, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inattentional blindness; Selective attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80055090172     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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