When a high-intensity "distractor" is better then a low-intensity one: Modeling the effect of an auditory or tactile nontarget stimulus on visual saccadic reaction time

Brain Research

Volumn 1242, Issue , 2008, Pages 219-230

  Diederich, Adele ^a   Colonius, Hans ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effect of intensity; Multisensory integration; Saccadic reaction time; Time window of integration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TACTILE MEMORY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55549089978     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.05.081     Document Type: Article

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