Multisensory warning signals: When spatial correspondence matters

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-272

  Ho, Cristy ^a   Santangelo, Valerio ^a,b   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Auditory; Directional congruency; Multisensory integration; Tactile; Warning signals

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349254546     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1778-5     Document Type: Article

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