Cognitive processes facilitated by contextual cueing: Evidence from event-related brain potentials

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 668-679

  Schankin, Andrea ^a,b   Schubö, Anna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Contextual cueing; Event related potentials; LRP; N2pc

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; CONTEXTUAL CUEING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N2PC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64149099150     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00807.x     Document Type: Article

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