Why two "Distractors" are better than one: Modeling the effect of non-target auditory and tactile stimuli on visual saccadic reaction time

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-54

  Diederich, Adele ^a   Colonius, Hans ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TOUCH;

EID: 34247512446     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0768-0     Document Type: Article

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