Facilitating masked visual target identification with auditory oddball stimuli

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-136

  Ngo, Mary Kim ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; Multisensory integration; Oddball; Perceptual grouping; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ABSENCE OF SOUND; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOUDER SOUND; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUIETER SOUND; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOUND; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865964352     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3153-1     Document Type: Article

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