Top-down directed attention to stimulus features and attentional allocation to bottom-up deviations

Journal of Vision

Volumn 8, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Sawaki, Risa ^a,b   Katayama, Jun'ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bottom up attentional mechanism; Event related brain potential; P3; Selective attention; Stimulus feature; Task irrelevant deviation; Top down attentional mechanism

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349150934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/8.15.4     Document Type: Article

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