Measuring and modeling attentional dwell time

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1029-1046

  Petersen, Anders ^a   Kyllingsbæk, Søren ^a   Bundesen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Attentional dwell time; Computational modeling; Theory of visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870192055     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0286-y     Document Type: Article

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