Numbers reorient visuo-spatial attention during cancellation tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 549-557

  Di Luca, Samuel ^a   Pesenti, Mauro ^a   Vallar, Giuseppe ^b,c   Girelli, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancellation task; Number processing; Visuo spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANCELLATION TASK; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

EID: 84876679695     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3393-0     Document Type: Article

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