Attentional capture by irrelevant transients leads to perceptual errors in a competitive change detection task

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Schneider, Daniel ^a   Beste, Christian ^b   Wascher, Edmund ^a  

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

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Awareness; error negativity; N2pc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867124210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00164     Document Type: Article

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