Inhibition in the dynamics of selective attention: An integrative model for negative priming

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Schrobsdorff, Hecke ^a,b,c   Ihrke, Matthias ^a,c   Behrendt, Jörg ^a,b   Hasselhorn, Marcus ^a,b,d   Herrmann, J Michael ^a,e  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^d GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Connectionist models; Negative priming; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870931674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00491     Document Type: Article

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