Covert manual response preparation triggers attentional modulations of visual but not auditory processing

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1063-1074

  Eimer, Martin ^a   van Velzen, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory processing; Event related brain potentials; Response preparation; Spatial; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646065044     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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