Effects of alcohol and task difficulty on visual tracking and inattentional blindness.
Rationale: Inattentional blindness (IB) describes the failure to notice salient but unexpected stimuli in one's focal visual field. It typically occurs while performing a demanding task (e.g. tracking and counting basketball passes), which consumes attentional resources. Alcohol intoxication is also...
| Publicado en: | Psychopharmacology Vol. 239; no. 8; pp. 2605 - 2618 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2022
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