Refractory Period, Psychological
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The attentional blink provides episodic distinctiveness: sparing at a cost.

30 May 2009 The attentional blink (J. E. Raymond, K. L. Shapiro, & K. M. Arnell, 1992) refers to an apparent gap in perception observed when a second target follows a first within several hundred milliseconds. Theoretical and computational work have provided ... Read more...

Parallel response selection disrupts sequence learning under dual-task conditions.

29 Apr 2009 Some studies suggest that dual-task processing impairs sequence learning; others suggest it does not. The reason for this discrepancy remains obscure. It may have to do with the dual-task procedure often used. Many dual-task sequence learning ... Read more...

Nonautomatic emotion perception in a dual-task situation.

30 Mar 2009 Are emotions perceived automatically? Two psychological refractory period experiments were conducted to ascertain whether emotion perception requires central attentional resources. Task 1 required an auditory discrimination (tone vs. noise), whereas ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Refractory Period, Psychological'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The attentional blink provides episodic distinctiveness: sparing at a cost. 30 May 2009
• Parallel response selection disrupts sequence learning under dual-task conditions. 29 Apr 2009
• Nonautomatic emotion perception in a dual-task situation. 30 Mar 2009
• Operation compatibility: a neglected contribution to dual-task costs. 30 Mar 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
• Is advance reconfiguration in voluntary task switching affected by the design employed? 5 Jan 2009
• Limits on introspection: distorted subjective time during the dual-task bottleneck. 30 Oct 2008
• 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
• Are spatial responses to visuospatial stimuli and spoken responses to auditory letters ideomotor-compatible tasks? Examination of set-size effects on dual-task interference. 6 Oct 2008
• Effects of stimulus features and instruction on response coding, selection, and inhibition: evidence from repetition effects under task switching. 29 Sep 2008
• Queuing network modeling of the psychological refractory period (PRP). 29 Sep 2008
• Bypassing the central bottleneck after single-task practice in the psychological refractory period paradigm: evidence for task automatization and greedy resource recruitment. 29 Sep 2008
• Delays without mistakes: response time and error distributions in dual-task. 10 Sep 2008
• Motor limitation in dual-task processing with different effectors. 30 Aug 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
• The nature of phoneme representation in spoken word recognition. 29 Apr 2008
• The role of crosstalk in dual-task performance: evidence from manipulating response-code overlap. 27 Apr 2008
• Viewer perspective affects central bottleneck requirements in spatial translation tasks. 30 Mar 2008

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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