Spatial cueing in time-space synesthetes: An event-related brain potential study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-46

  Teuscher, Ursina ^a,b   Brang, David ^a,b   Ramachandran, Vilayanur S ^b   Coulson, Seana ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Synesthesia; Time space mapping; Visuo spatial cuing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955281081     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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