Attentional demands of movement observation as tested by a dual task approach

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Saucedo Marquez, Cinthia M ^a   Ceux, Tanja ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT OBSERVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84858784193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027292     Document Type: Article

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