Interactions between task difficulty and hemispheric distribution of attended locations: Implications for the splitting attention debate

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-32

  Kraft, Antje ^a,b,c   Müller, Notger G ^d   Hagendorf, Herbert ^c   Schira, Mark M ^a   Dick, Sandra ^a   Fendrich, Robert M ^b   Brandt, Stephan A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Hemisphere; Models of attention; Orienting; Visual field; Visuo spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 19544376657     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.12.004     Document Type: Article

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