Psychological time as information: The case of boredom

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Zakay, Dan ^a,b  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attentional gate; Boredom; Information processing load; Prospective timing; Psychological time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906337134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00917     Document Type: Article

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