Enhancement and suppression in the visual field under perceptual load

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Parks, Nathan A ^a,b   Beck, Diane M ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; N1; Perceptual load; Steady state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878920316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00275     Document Type: Article

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