Orienting and maintenance of spatial attention in audition and vision: An event-related brain potential study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3725-3733

  Salmi, Juha ^a   Rinne, Teemu ^a   Degerman, Alexander ^a   Alho, Kimmo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Human brain; Late positive response (LPR); Negative difference (Nd); Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34347370250     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05616.x     Document Type: Article

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