Can the spotlight of attention be shaped like a doughnut? evidence from steady-state visual evoked potentials

Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 119-124

  Müller, Matthias M ^a   Hübner, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036511767     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00422     Document Type: Article

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