The role of auditory transient and deviance processing in distraction of task performance: A combined behavioral and event-related brain potential study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Berti, Stefan ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory distraction; Control of attention; Event related brain potentials; Mismatch negativity (MMN); P3a; Predictive coding; Reorienting negativity (RON)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933673628     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00352     Document Type: Article

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