The effect of variability of unattended information on global and local processing: Evidence for lateralization at early stages of processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 225-239

  Evans, M A ^a   Shedden, J M ^a   Hevenor, S J ^a   Hahn, M C ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ERP; Extrastriate; Feedback; Hemisphere; Object; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033990820     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00080-9     Document Type: Article

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