Uninformative symbolic cues may bias visual-spatial attention: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Biological Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-71

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Response latencies; Uninformative cues; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT SURVEY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030835273     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(97)05254-X     Document Type: Article

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