Religion and the attentional blink: Depth of faith predicts depth of the blink

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2010, Pages

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a   Shapiro, Kimron L ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Religion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864567686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00147     Document Type: Article

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