Tracking the voluntary control of auditory spatial attention with event-related brain potentials

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 357-366

  Störmer, Viola S ^a   Green, Jessica J ^a   McDonald, John J ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Auditory attention; Covert orienting; Event related potentials; LAURA source estimation; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049085543     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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