Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switching
Electrical responses reveal the temporal dynamics of brain events during involuntary attention switching
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DOI:
10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01707.x
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发表时间:
2001-09-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Alho, K
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作者:
Escera, C;Yago, E;Alho, K
Surviving in the natural environment requires the rapid switching of attention among potentially relevant stimuli. We studied electrophysiologically the involuntary switching time in humans performing a task designed to study brain mechanisms of involuntary attention and distraction (C. Escera et al., 1998, J. Cogn. Neurosci., 10, 590-604). Ten subjects were instructed to discriminate visual stimuli preceded by a task-irrelevant sound, this being either a repetitive tone (P=0.8) or a distracting sound, i.e. a slightly higher deviant tone (P=0.1) or an environmental novel sound (P=0.11). In different conditions, the sounds preceded the visual stimuli by 245 or 355 ms. Deviant tones and novel sounds prolonged reaction times significantly to subsequent visual stimuli by 7.4 (P