Spatial attention facilitates selection of illusory objects: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Brain Research

Volumn 1139, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-152

  Martínez, Antígona ^a,b   Teder Salejarvi, Wolfgang ^c   Hillyard, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERPs; Illusory object; Object attention; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT ATTENTION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33847296560     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.12.056     Document Type: Article

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