Cognitive control after distraction: Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) dissociate between different processes of attentional allocation

Psychophysiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 608-620

  Berti, Stefan ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory system; Event related brain potentials (ERPs); Reorienting negativity (RON); Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 45149117677     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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