The cognitive locus of distraction by acoustic novelty in the cross-modal oddball task

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 408-432

  Parmentier, Fabrice B R ^a,b   Elford, Gregory ^a   Escera, Carles ^c   Andrés, Pilar ^a   Miguel, Iria San ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention capture; Auditory distraction; Electrophysiology; Novelty detection; Oddball task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 36849005413     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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