The interaction between alerting and executive control: Dissociating phasic arousal and temporal expectancy

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1374-1381

  Weinbach, Noam ^a   Henik, Avishai ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alerting; Executive control; Foreperiod effect; Phasic arousal; Temporal expectancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885809829     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0501-6     Document Type: Article

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