attentional blink

the inability to detect a second target presented within 500 ms of the first, where the two targets appear in a rapid sequential presentation of distractors and targets. It is attributed to attentional requirements for processing the target and not to perceptual impairment.

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May 9th 2024

x-intercept

x -intercept

n. in an equation representing a straight-line relationship between two variables, the value of variable x when the value of variable y equals zero. For example, in the general linear equation format x = a + by, a represents the x-intercept.