Intra- and cross-modal cuing of spatial attention: Time courses and mechanisms

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1081-1096

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Tse, Hennis Chi Hang ^a   Dosher, Barbara Anne ^b   Lesmes, Luis A ^a   Posner, Christian ^a   Chu, Wilson ^a  

^a Departments of Psychology and Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross modal cuing; Endogenous attention; Exogenous attention; External noise exclusion; Intra modal cuing; Mechanisms of attention; Stimulus enhancement; Time course of attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349196755     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.05.021     Document Type: Article

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