Electrophysiological attention effects in a virtual cocktail-party setting

Brain Research

Volumn 1307, Issue , 2010, Pages 78-88

  Münte, Thomas F ^a   Spring, Dörte K ^a   Szycik, Gregor R ^a,b   Noesselt, Toemme ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Event related potential; Spatial information; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70749129856     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.044     Document Type: Article

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