ERP correlates of anticipatory attention: Spatial and non-spatial specificity and relation to subsequent selective attention

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-62

  Dale, Corby L ^a   Simpson, Gregory V ^a   Foxe, John J ^b,c   Luks, Tracy L ^a   Worden, Michael S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Top down control; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CUES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 44749094474     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1338-4     Document Type: Article

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