Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of distractor variation on auditory selective attention

Brain Research

Volumn 1166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 110-123

  Tong, Yunxia ^a   Melara, Robert D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory selective attention; Distractor; Distractor variation; ERP; Target

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY SELECTIVE ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34548035841     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.061     Document Type: Article

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