Curbing the attentional blink: Practice keeps the mind's eye open

Neurocomputing

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-22

  Nakatani, Chie ^a,b   Baijal, Shruti ^b,c   van Leeeuwen, Cees ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

ERP; Lag 1 sparing; N2; P3; RSVP; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL BLINKS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; LAG 1 SPARING; N2; P3; RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATIONS; RSVP; TEMPORAL SELECTIVITY;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; SEPARATION; SIGNAL DETECTION;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEGATIVE DEFLECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84858154923     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2011.12.022     Document Type: Article

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