Post-perceptual processing during the attentions! blink is modulated by inter-trial task expectancies

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Sy, Jocelyn L ^a   Elliott, James C ^b   Giesbrecht, Barry ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional blink; Event related potentials; Expectancy; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84886380058     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00627     Document Type: Article

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