Object-substitution masking modulates spatial attention deployment and the encoding of information in visual short-term memory: Insights from occipito-parietal ERP components

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 687-696

  Prime, David J ^a   Pluchino, Patrik ^b   Eimer, Martin ^c   Dell'acqua, Roberto ^b   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Masking; Sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN); Visual short term memory (VSTM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953273575     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01133.x     Document Type: Article

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