An electrophysiological assessment of distractor suppression in visual search tasks

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 771-775

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional orienting; Distractor suppression; Event related brain potentials; Feature repetition; N2pc; Visual search; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; DISTRACTOR SUPPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N2PC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66949171379     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00814.x     Document Type: Article

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