How does attention attenuate target-distractor interference in vision? Evidence from magnetoencephalographic recordings

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-29

  Hopf, J M ^a   Boelmans, K ^a   Schoenfeld, A M ^a   Heinze, H J ^a   Luck, S J ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional resolution; Distractor attenuation; Neural activity; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENUATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036890025     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00213-6     Document Type: Article

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