Hearing while blinking: Multisensory attentional blink revisited

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 922-927

  Haroush, Keren ^a   Deouell, Leon Y ^a   Hochstein, Shaul ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BLINKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78751482380     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0420-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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