The influence of strongly focused visual attention on the detection of change in an auditory pattern

Brain Research

Volumn 1234, Issue , 2008, Pages 78-86

  Sculthorpe, Lauren D ^a   Collin, Charles A ^a   Campbell, Kenneth B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory event related potential; Auditory pattern; MMN; Pattern MMN; Visual task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COLOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52049106414     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.031     Document Type: Article

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