The Duration of a Co-Occurring Sound Modulates Visual Detection Performance in Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  de Haas, Benjamin ^a,b   Cecere, Roberto ^b,c   Cullen, Harriet ^b   Driver, Jon ^a,b   Romei, Vincenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOUND; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872800083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054789     Document Type: Article

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