Exploring steady-state visual evoked potentials as an index for intermodal and crossmodal spatial attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 665-675

  Zhang, Dan ^a,b   Hong, Bo ^a   Gao, Xiaorong ^a   Gao, Shangkai ^a   Röder, Brigitte ^b  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crossmodal; Intermodal; Phase locking index; Spatial attention; Steady state visual evoked potential

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953271783     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01132.x     Document Type: Article

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