The electrophysiological effect of working memory load on involuntary attention in an auditory-visual distraction paradigm: An ERP study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-86

  Lv, Jie Yu ^a,b   Wang, Ting ^a,b,c   Qiu, Jiang ^a,b   Feng, Si Hai ^a   Tu, Shen ^a,b   Wei, Dong Tao ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Involuntary attention; Mismatch negativity (MMN); Novelty P3; Working memory (WM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DISTRACTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955013559     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2360-x     Document Type: Article

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