Parallel perceptual enhancement and hierarchic relevance evaluation in an audio-visual conjunction task

Brain Research

Volumn 1236, Issue , 2008, Pages 126-139

  Potts, Geoffrey F ^a   Wood, Susan M ^b   Kothmann, Delia ^c   Martin, Laura E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potentials; Multisensory; Perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTEND AUDITORY TASK; ATTEND CONJUNCTION TASK; ATTEND VISUAL TASK; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53049104675     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.104     Document Type: Article

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