Temporary visual deficit or impaired visual processing occurring in a rapid serial visual presentation task. After a person identifies the first of two visual targets, the ability to detect the second target is impaired for the next few hundred milliseconds. This phenomenon is called attentional blink.
A delayed response interval occurring when two stimuli are presented in close succession.
Brief closing of the eyelids by involuntary normal periodic closing, as a protective measure, or by voluntary action.
Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.
Learning to make a series of responses in exact order.
Mental process to visually perceive a critical number of facts (the pattern), such as characters, shapes, displays, or designs.
The time from the onset of a stimulus until a response is observed.
Investigative technique commonly used during ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY in which a series of bright light flashes or visual patterns are used to elicit brain activity.
Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond.
The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience.
The interference of one perceptual stimulus with another causing a decrease or lessening in perceptual effectiveness.
The science dealing with the correlation of the physical characteristics of a stimulus, e.g., frequency or intensity, with the response to the stimulus, in order to assess the psychologic factors involved in the relationship.
The act of "taking account" of an object or state of affairs. It does not imply assessment of, nor attention to the qualities or nature of the object.
The positioning and accommodation of eyes that allows the image to be brought into place on the FOVEA CENTRALIS of each eye.
Each of the upper and lower folds of SKIN which cover the EYE when closed.
Remembrance of information for a few seconds to hours.
The detailed examination of observable activity or behavior associated with the execution or completion of a required function or unit of work.
The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity.
Mental processing of chromatic signals (COLOR VISION) from the eye by the VISUAL CORTEX where they are converted into symbolic representations. Color perception involves numerous neurons, and is influenced not only by the distribution of wavelengths from the viewed object, but also by its background color and brightness contrast at its boundary.
Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field or subject. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)