Refractory Period, Psychological - Physiology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

On the optimality of serial and parallel processing in the psychological refractory period paradigm: effects of the distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies.

15 Mar 2009 Within the context of the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm, we developed a general theoretical framework for deciding when it is more efficient to process two tasks in serial and when it is more efficient to process them in parallel. ... Read more...

Cognitive neuroscience: searching for the bottleneck in the brain.

26 Oct 2008 People simply cannot do two things at once, as shown by research on the so-called psychological refractory period. A new neuroimaging study has now localized the response-selection bottleneck underlying the psychological refractory period to a ... Read more...

Contingent capture of visual-spatial attention depends on capacity-limited central mechanisms: evidence from human electrophysiology and the psychological refractory period.

17 Oct 2008 It has recently been demonstrated that a lateralized distractor that matches the individual's top-down control settings elicits an N2pc wave, an electrophysiological index of the focus of visual-spatial attention, indicating that contingent capture ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refractory Period, Psychological - Physiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• On the optimality of serial and parallel processing in the psychological refractory period paradigm: effects of the distribution of stimulus onset asynchronies. 15 Mar 2009
• Cognitive neuroscience: searching for the bottleneck in the brain. 26 Oct 2008
• Contingent capture of visual-spatial attention depends on capacity-limited central mechanisms: evidence from human electrophysiology and the psychological refractory period. 17 Oct 2008
• Queuing network modeling of the psychological refractory period (PRP). 29 Sep 2008
• Models of attention and dual-task performance as explanatory constructs in aphasia. 30 Jul 2008
• Brain mechanisms of serial and parallel processing during dual-task performance. 21 Jul 2008
• Viewer perspective affects central bottleneck requirements in spatial translation tasks. 30 Mar 2008
• Response activation in overlapping tasks and the response-selection bottleneck. 30 Mar 2008
• Parallel response selection after callosotomy. 28 Feb 2008
• Response grouping in the psychological refractory period (PRP) paradigm: models and contamination effects. 9 Feb 2008
• Global and local attention in the attentional blink. 3 Dec 2007
• The semantic organisation of mass nouns: evidence from semantic refractory access dysphasia. 30 Oct 2007
• Event-related potential correlates of repetition priming for ignored faces. 25 Aug 2007
• The impact of Degraded distractors on (Nondegraded) target identification. 4 Jul 2007
• Action-effect codes in and before the central bottleneck: evidence from the psychological refractory period paradigm. 30 May 2007
• Semantic and repetition priming within the attentional blink: an event-related brain potential (ERP) investigation study. 23 May 2007
• Adaptive control of event integration: evidence from event-related potentials. 17 Mar 2007
• A psychological refractory period in access to visual short-term memory and the deployment of visual-spatial attention: multitasking processing deficits revealed by event-related potentials. 27 Feb 2007
• Electrophysiological evidence of central interference in the control of visuospatial attention. 30 Jan 2007
• Human high frequency somatosensory evoked potential components are refractory to circadian modulations of tonic alertness. 30 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Refractory Period, Psychological'

Definition: A delayed response interval occurring when two stimuli are presented in close succession.

Descriptor UI: D012033

Alternative terms: Refractory Period, Psychological; Periods, Psychological Refractory; Psychological Refractory Period; Refractory Period, Psychologic; Period, Psychologic Refractory; Periods, Psychologic Refractory; Psychologic Refractory Period; Psychologic Refractory Periods; Refractory Periods, Psychologic; Refractory Periods, Psychological; Period, Psychological Refractory; Psychological Refractory Periods;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.830.650.400; F04.669.817.559;

Online Note: use REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL to search REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGIC 1972-78 (as Prov 72-74)

History Note: 91(79); was see under REACTION TIME 1979-90; was REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGIC see under REACTION TIME 1975-78; was REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGIC 1972-74 (Prov)

Technical Notes: human & animal; DF: REFRACTORY PERIOD PSYCHOL