Involuntary attentional capture is determined by task set: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1423-1433

  Eimer, Martin ^a   Kiss, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 48749083596     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20099     Document Type: Article

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