Temporal attention shortens perceptual latency: A temporal prior entry effect

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 708-717

  Seibold, Verena C ^a   Fiedler, Anja ^a   Rolke, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory perception; Event related potential; Temporal attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953290483     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01135.x     Document Type: Article

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