Fast preattentive processing of location: A functional basis for selective listening in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-8

  Schröger, Erich ^a   Wolff, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audition; Automatic processing; Event related potentials; Mismatch negativity; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0038397478     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00561-2     Document Type: Article

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