Alerting effects on choice reaction time and the photic eyeblink reflex

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 385-393

  Low, Kathy A ^a   Larson, Stacy L ^a   Burke, Jason ^a   Hackley, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Audition; Brain stem refer; Foreperiod; Startle blink; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0029892526     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-4694(96)95085-3     Document Type: Article

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