Strategic allocation of attention reduces temporally predictable stimulus conflict

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1834-1848

  Appelbaum, L Gregory ^a   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b   Won, Robert ^a   Davis, Lauren ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864399607     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00209     Document Type: Article

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