Attention distributed across sensory modalities enhances perceptual performance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 12294-12302

  Mishra, Jyoti ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865474224     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0867-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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