Simultaneous and preceding sounds enhance rapid visual targets: Evidence from the attentional blink

Advances in Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 130-142

  Kranczioch, Cornelia ^a   Thorne, Jeremy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Crossmodal facilitation; Practice; Reliability; Sound; Tone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892583176     PISSN: 18951171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5709/acp-0139-4     Document Type: Article

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