Focused and distributed attention

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 176, Issue , 2009, Pages 87-100

  Srinivasan, Narayanan ^a   Srivastava, Priyanka ^a   Lohani, Monika ^a   Baijal, Shruti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

Author keywords

afterimages; awareness; distributed attention; emotions; focused attention

Indexed keywords

AFTERIMAGE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; HUMAN; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFTERIMAGE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COLOR PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 69449087336     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17606-9     Document Type: Review

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