Orienting and focusing in voluntary and involuntary visuospatial attention conditions: An event-related potential study

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 198-209

  Wang, Yan ^a   Wu, Jianhui ^a   Fu, Shimin ^b   Luo, Yuejia ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; Focusing; Involuntary; Orienting; Voluntary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 78650978352     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000010     Document Type: Article

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