The role of visual attention in multiple object tracking: Evidence from ERPs

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-52

  Doran, Matthew M ^a   Hoffman, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952124456     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.1.33     Document Type: Article

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