Selecting and ignoring salient objects within and across dimensions in visual search

Brain Research

Volumn 1283, Issue , 2009, Pages 84-101

  Schubö, Anna ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention guidance; Bottom up selection; Dimension specific processing; N2pc; Posterior N2; Top down selection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651115620     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.077     Document Type: Article

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