Elastic attention: Enhanced, then sharpened response to auditory input as attentional load increases

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Neelon, Michael F ^a   Williams, Justin ^b   Charles Garell, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory cortex; ECoG; ERP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; NEUROANATOMY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84933677839     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00041     Document Type: Article

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