Is attentional focusing an inhibitory process at distractor location?

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 185-188

  Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b   Molteni, Massimo ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distractor inhibition; Flanker effect; Focusing; Reaction time; Selective spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033824248     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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