Early ERP effects on the scaling of spatial attention in visual search

Progress in Natural Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-386

  Niu, Ya Nan ^a,b   Wei, Jing Han ^a   Luo, Yue Jia ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

'Scaling' effect; Event related potential; Spatial attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

'SCALING' EFFECT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SCALING EFFECTS; SCALINGS; SEARCH TASKS; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPATIAL SCALING; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL SEARCH;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 42549124639     PISSN: 10020071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnsc.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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