Perceptual load affects spatial and nonspatial visual selection processes: An event-related brain potential study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2071-2078

  Barnhardt, Jack ^b,c,d   Ritter, Walter ^e   Gomes, Hilary ^a,b,d  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Wesley College   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Nonspatial attention; Perceptual load; Reaction time; Spatial attention; Visual selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SCALP; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44349119860     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.007     Document Type: Article

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