Minds on the blink: The relationship between inattentional blindness and attentional blink

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-330

  Beanland, Vanessa ^a,b   Pammer, Kristen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Consciousness; Inattentional blindness; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; RECREATION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; VIDEO GAMES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857585733     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0241-4     Document Type: Article

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