Visual target selection and motor planning define attentional enhancement at perceptual processing stages

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Collins, Thérèse ^a,b   Heed, Tobias ^b   Röder, Brigitte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; Human; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79952999558     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.014.2010     Document Type: Article

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