Musical minds: Attentional blink reveals modality-specific restrictions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Martens, Sander ^a,b   Wierda, Stefan M ^a,b   Dun, Mathijs ^a   De Vries, Michal ^a   Smid, Henderikus G O M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MUSIC; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923899585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118294     Document Type: Article

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