Attentional orienting induced by arrows and eye-gaze compared with an endogenous cue

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 370-381

  Brignani, D ^a,b   Guzzon, D ^b   Marzi, C A ^b   Miniussi, C ^a,c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Automatic and voluntary orienting; Central cues; ERPs; Event related potentials; Visual orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849085881     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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