Electrophysiological evidence for attentional guidance by the contents of working memory

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 307-317

  Kumar, Sanjay ^a,b   Soto, David ^a,b   Humphreys, Glyn W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Human; N2PC; Priming; Vision; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 67651173231     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06805.x     Document Type: Article

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