Attentional modulation of early ERP components in response to faces: Evidence from the attentional blink paradigm

Brain Topography

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 167-181

  Darque, Alexandra ^a,b   Del Zotto, Marzia ^a,b   Khateb, Asaid ^c   Pegna, Alan J ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; ERP; RSVP

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84862762285     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: 15736792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10548-011-0199-5     Document Type: Article

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