Distraction of task-relevant information processing by irrelevant changes in auditory, visual, and bimodal stimulus features: A behavioral and event-related potential study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 645-654

  Boll, Sabrina ^a   Berti, Stefan ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Distraction; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Multi sensory integration; P3a; Reorienting negativity (RON)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64149127354     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00803.x     Document Type: Article

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