On the control of visual spatial attention: Evidence from human electrophysiology

Psychological Research

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 414-424

  Jolicœur, Pierre ^a   Sessa, Paola ^b   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^b   Robitaille, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR VISION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; REACTION TIME; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SERIAL LEARNING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33746881229     PISSN: 03400727     EISSN: 14302772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-005-0008-4     Document Type: Article

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