Individual Differences in the Attentional Blink: The Temporal Profile of Blinkers and Non-Blinkers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Willems, Charlotte ^a,b   Wierda, Stefan M ^a,b   van Viegen, Eva ^a   Martens, Sander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; INDIVIDUALITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84878627908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066185     Document Type: Article

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