Event-related potentials dissociate effects of salience and space in biased competition for visual representation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Hilimire, Matthew R ^a   Mounts, Jeffrey R W ^b   Parks, Nathan A ^c   Corballis, Paul M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958599976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012677     Document Type: Article

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