Visual search strategies are indexed by event-related lateralizations of the EEG

Biological Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-100

  Wolber, Maren ^a   Wascher, Edmund ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related lateralization; Event related potentials; Feature and conjunction search; N2pc; Selective attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISION;

EID: 0037390458     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(03)00028-0     Document Type: Article

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