Intra-modal and cross-modal spatial attention to auditory and visual stimuli. An event-related brain potential study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 327-343

  Teder Sälejärvi, Wolfgang A ^a   Münte, Thomas F ^b,c   Sperlich, Franz Jürgen ^b   Hillyard, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Cross modal attention; Event related brain potential; Selective attention; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 17744413703     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00037-3     Document Type: Article

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