Response specific temporal expectancy: Evidence from a variable foreperiod paradigm

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2309-2322

  Thomaschke, Roland ^a,b   Kiesel, Andrea ^b   Hoffmann, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Motor control; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155154040     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0179-6     Document Type: Article

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