Electrophysiological correlates of detecting a visual target and detecting its absence: The role of feature dimensions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3365-3370

  Akyurek E G ^a,b   Dinkelbach, Angela ^a   Schubö, Anna ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimension weighting; Event related potential; N2pc; P3; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77955846976     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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