Attending to quadrants and ring-shaped regions: ERP effects of visual attention in different spatial selection tasks

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 491-503

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERPs; N1; P1; Spatial attention; Spatial selectivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0032768150     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299980915     Document Type: Article

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