Individual differences within and across attentional blink tasks revisited

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 456-467

  Dale, Gillian ^a   Dux, Paul E ^b   Arnell, Karen M ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Dual task performance; Individual differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875998818     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-012-0415-8     Document Type: Article

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