Surprise? Early visual novelty processing is not modulated by attention

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 624-632

  Tarbi, Elise C ^a   Sun, Xue ^a   Holcomb, Phillip J ^b   Daffner, Kirk R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior N2; Attention; Event related potentials; Novelty; Unfamiliarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953275673     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01129.x     Document Type: Article

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