Unimodal and crossmodal gradients of spatial attention: Evidence from event-related potentials

Brain Topography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Föcker, Julia ^a   Hötting, Kirsten ^a   Gondan, Matthias ^b   Röder, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related brain potentials; Hearing; Multisensory; Spatial attention; Spatial representation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76649134085     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-009-0111-8     Document Type: Article

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