Effects of overt and covert attention on the steady-state visual evoked potential

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 519, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-41

  Walter, Sabrina ^a   Quigley, Cliodhna ^a,b   Andersen, Søren K ^a,c   Mueller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Covert attention; Overt attention; Steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP); Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETO-OCCIPITAL SULCUS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; DECEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861818221     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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