Bullet trains and steam engines: Exogenous attention zips but endogenous attention chugs along

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna ^a,b   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Bilateral advantage; Endogenous; Exogenous; Hemifield; Latency; Shift

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051766554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.4.1     Document Type: Article

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