Target sparing effects in the attentional blink depend on type of stimulus

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2104-2123

  Livesey, Evan J ^a   Harris, Irina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Extended sparing; Lag 1 sparing; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION;

ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155187537     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0177-8     Document Type: Article

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