The interplay of attention and consciousness in visual search, attentional blink and working memory consolidation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1641, 2014, Pages

  Raffone, Antonino ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanan ^b   van Leeuwen, Cees ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Consciousness; Visual search; Working memory

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISION;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONSCIOUSNESS; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL SEARCH; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL SEARCH; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84909590611     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0215     Document Type: Article

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