The role of preparation time in the attentional blink

Vision Research

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 68-76

  Badcock, Nicholas A ^a,b   Badcock, David R ^b   Fletcher, Janet ^b   Hogben, John ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Foreperiod; Perceptual set; Preparation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84869223133     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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