Central Perceptual Load Does Not Reduce Ipsilesional Flanker Interference in Parietal Extinction

Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-382

  Snow, Jacqueline C ^a   Mattingley, Jason B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

perceptual load; salience; selectivity; unilateral neglect; visual extinction

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 43149119967     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.22.3.371     Document Type: Article

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