Sustained division of the attentional spotlight

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6946, 2003, Pages 309-312

  Muller M M ^a   Malinowski, P ^b   Gruber, T ^a   Hillyard, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LENSES;

VISUAL-CORTICAL PROCESSING;

VISION;

VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041305831     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01812     Document Type: Article

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