Electrophysiological evidence of multitasking impairment of attentional deployment reflects target-specific processing, not distractor inhibition

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-159

  Corriveau, Isabelle ^a   Fortier Gauthier, Ulysse ^a   Pomerleau, Vincent Jetté ^a   McDonald, John ^b   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^c   Jolicoeur, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distractor processing; Electrophysiology; ERP components; N2pc; Target processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL ATTENTION; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTITASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVITY POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL ATTENTION; STIMULUS ONSET ASYNCHRONY; SUSTAINED POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL NEGATIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869096863     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: 18727697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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