Separate attentional resources for vision and audition

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1592, 2006, Pages 1339-1345

  Alais, David ^a,d   Morrone, Concetta ^a,b   Burr, David ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Audition; Vision

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION; MODEL; THRESHOLD; VISION;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 33746192331     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3420     Document Type: Article

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