Controlling spatial attention without central attentional resources: Evidence from event-related potentials

Visual Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-78

  Lien, Mei Ching ^a   Croswaite, Khara ^a   Ruthruff, Eric ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Central attention; N2pc effect; Psychological refractory period; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78650339827     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2010.491643     Document Type: Article

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