Surfing the attentional waves during visual curve tracing: Evidence from the sustained posterior contralateral negativity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1510-1516

  Lefebvre, Christine ^a   Dell'acqua, Roberto ^b   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^c   JolicÆur, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Curve tracing; ERP; Selective attention; SPCN

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053571114     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01228.x     Document Type: Article

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