Attention to baseline: Does orienting visuospatial attention really facilitate target detection?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 809-816

  Albares, Marion ^a   Criaud, Marion ^a,b   Wardak, Claire ^a   Nguyen, Song Chi Trung ^a   Hamed, Suliann Ben ^a   Boulinguez, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Electrooculography; Human; Inhibition; Saccades

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051534483     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00206.2011     Document Type: Article

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