Reduced Susceptibility to the Attentional Blink in Psychopathic Offenders: Implications for the Attention Bottleneck Hypothesis

Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-109

  Wolf, Richard C ^a   Carpenter, Ryan W ^b   Warren, Christopher M ^c   Zeier, Joshua D ^a   Baskin Sommers, Arielle R ^a   Newman, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Psychopathy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOPATHY; ATTENTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRIMINALS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84863582636     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026000     Document Type: Article

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