Different efficiencies of attentional orienting in different wandering minds

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-148

  Hu, Nantu ^a,b   He, Sheng ^b   Xu, Baihua ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting; Attentional networks; Executive control; Exogenous orienting; Mind Wandering; Orienting; RT variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXOGENOUS VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIND WANDERING; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84857503846     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2011.12.007     Document Type: Article

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