Purely endogenous capture of attention by task-defining features proceeds independently from spatial attention

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 859-866

  Brignani, Debora ^a   Lepsien, Jöran ^b   Nobre, Anna C ^b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Event related potentials; Feature based attention; N2pc; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951978075     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.029     Document Type: Article

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