Swapping or dropping? Electrophysiological measures of difficulty during multiple object tracking

Cognition

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 213-223

  Drew, Trafton ^a   Horowitz, Todd S ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; ERPs; Multiple object tracking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84871820118     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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