Sex differences in competition-based attentional selection

Zeitschrift fur Psychologie / Journal of Psychology

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 90-97

  Sänger, Jessica ^a   Schneider, Daniel ^b   Beste, Christian ^c   Wascher, Edmund ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Competition; EEG; Event related potentials; N2pc; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863621095     PISSN: 21908370     EISSN: 21512604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000100     Document Type: Article

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