Competitive interactions of attentional resources in early visual cortex during sustained visuospatial attention within or between visual hemifields: Evidence for the different-hemifield advantage

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 938-954

  Walter, Sabrina ^a   Quigley, Cliodhna ^b   Mueller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897471966     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00547     Document Type: Article

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