Top-down dimensional weight set determines the capture of visual attention: Evidence from the PCN component

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1554-1563

  Töllner, Thomas ^a   Müller, Hermann J ^a,b   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attentional capture; electroencephalography; N2pc; saliency; visual Search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTRAST; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862871436     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr231     Document Type: Article

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