An event-related brain potential study of visual selective attention to conjunctions of color and shape

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 264-279

  Smid, Henderikus G O M ^a,b   Jakob, A ^a   Heinzh, H J ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERP; Multidimensional selection; Selection for action; Stimulus discriminability; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COLOR; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0032995784     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299971135     Document Type: Article

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