Contingent capture of visual-spatial attention depends on capacity-limited central mechanisms: Evidence from human electrophysiology and the psychological refractory period

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 218-225

  Brisson, Benoit ^a   Leblanc, Émilie ^a   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contingent capture; Cross modal PRP paradigm; Dual task interference; Human electrophysiology; N2pc

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; VISUAL FIELD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349103214     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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