Neural mechanisms of intermodal sustained selective attention with concurrently presented auditory and visual stimuli

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Saupe, Katja ^a   Schröger, Erich ^a   Andersen, Søren K ^a   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASSR; Human EEG; Intermodal; SSVEP; Supramodal; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349312597     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.058.2009     Document Type: Article

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