ERP modulations indicate the selective processing of visual stimuli as a result of transient and sustained spatial attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-21

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Nd; Sustained attention; Trial by trial cueing; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030066757     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02104.x     Document Type: Article

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