Shifts of attention in the early blind: An ERP study of attentional control processes in the absence of visual spatial information

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2533-2546

  Van Velzen, José ^a   Eardley, Alison F ^b   Forster, Bettina ^c   Eimer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Blindness; Control; Event related brain potential; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 33745936805     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.03.025     Document Type: Article

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