Difficulty of discrimination modulates attentional capture by regulating attentional focus

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 359-371

  Sawaki, Risa ^a,b   Katayama, JuN'Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59949100655     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21022     Document Type: Article

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