Attentional and sensory effects of lowered levels of intrinsic alertness

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3255-3264

  Matthias, Ellen ^a   Bublak, Peter ^b   Costa, Anna ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a   Schneider, Werner X ^a,c   Finke, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alertness; Extinction; Spatial attention; Theory of visual attention (TVA)

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350426085     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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