Resetting capacity limitations revealed by long-lasting elimination of attentional blink through training

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 12242-12247

  Choi, Hoon ^a,b   Chang, Li Hung ^a,b,c   Shibata, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Sasaki, Yuka ^b,c,d   Watanabe, Takeo ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Color salient training; Learning in temporal attention; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR VISION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COLOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864344523     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203972109     Document Type: Article

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