Competitive interaction degrades target selection: An ERP study

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1080-1089

  Hilimire, Matthew R ^a   Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^b   Parks, Nathan A ^a   Corballis, Paul M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Event related potetial; Localized attentional interference; N2pc; Neural competition; Ptc

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349118664     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00846.x     Document Type: Article

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