Covert unimanual response preparation triggers attention shifts to effectors rather than goal locations

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 142-146

  Forster, Bettina ^a   Eimer, Martin ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effector hand; ERPs; Movement goal; Shifts of attention; Tactile processing; Unimanual movement preparation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 34248142203     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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