Effects of intensity and positional predictability of a visual stimulus on simple reaction time

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-349

  Carreiro, Luiz Renato Rodrigues ^a   Haddad, Hamilton ^b   Baldo, Marcus Vinicius Chrysóstomo ^c  

^a Mackenzie Presbyterian University   (Brazil)

^b FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DO ABC   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Predictability; Reaction time; Stimulus intensity; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650520090     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.053     Document Type: Article

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