Attention selection, distractor suppression and N2pc

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 879-890

  Mazza, Veronica ^a   Turatto, Massimo ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional orienting; Distractor suppression; Event related brain potentials; N2pc; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 65249140477     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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