Irrelevant visual stimuli improve auditory task performance

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 553-557

  Thorne, Jeremy D ^a,b   Debener, Stefan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL SOUTH HANTS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audiovisual; Crossmodal; Multisensory; Response time; Stimulus onset asynchrony

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 41849130230     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f8b1b6     Document Type: Article

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