Negative attentional set in the attentional blink: Control is not lost

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2489-2501

  Zhang, Dexuan ^a,b   Zhou, Xiaolin ^b   Martens, Sander ^c  

^a HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Attentional set; RSVP; Temporal processing; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81755166861     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0207-6     Document Type: Article

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