The gradient of spatial auditory attention in free field: An event-related potential study

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1228-1242

  Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang A ^a,b   Hillyard, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POSTURE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032193352     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206172     Document Type: Article

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