An ERP study of sustained spatial attention to stimulus eccentricity

Biological Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 205-220

  Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Nd; Spatial selectivity; Sustained attention; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034163571     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(00)00028-4     Document Type: Article

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