Attentional selection and attentional gradients: An alternative method for studying transient visual-spatial attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 365-376

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attentional gradients; Event related potentials; Nd; Sensory gating; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030923061     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb02407.x     Document Type: Article

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