Attentional capacity for processing concurrent stimuli is larger across sensory modalities than within a modality

Psychophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 541-549

  Talsma, Durk ^a,b   Doty, Tracy J ^a,c,d   Strowd, Roy ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

EEG; Electrophysiology; Intermodal attention; Multisensory processing; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 33750492311     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00452.x     Document Type: Article

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