Effects of mental resource availability on looming task performance

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 107-113

  McGuire, Austen B ^a   Gillath, Omri ^a   Vitevitch, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory stimuli; Cognitive load; Looming bias; Margin of safety theory; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953638350     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-1006-2     Document Type: Article

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