Facilitation and inhibition arising from the exogenous orienting of covert attention depends on the temporal properties of spatial cues and targets

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 731-744

  Maruff, Paul ^a,b,c   Yucel, Murat ^b,c   Danckert, James ^b,c   Stuart, Geoff ^b   Currie, Jon ^b,d  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; THEORY; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 0033020234     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00067-0     Document Type: Article

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