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    Early posterior ERP components do not reflect the control of attentional shifts towards expected peripheral events

    Van Velzen, J. and Eimer, Martin (2003) Early posterior ERP components do not reflect the control of attentional shifts towards expected peripheral events. Psychophysiology 40 (5), pp. 827-831. ISSN 0048-5772.

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    Abstract

    Previous experiments investigating ERP correlates of anticipatory attention shifts triggered by central symbolic cues have identified a contralateral “early directing attention negativity,” which was assumed to be generated by processes involved in the control of spatial orienting. Here we demonstrate that this component is not directly linked to the control of attentional shifts, but instead reflects the selection of task‐relevant aspects of cue stimuli. In contrast, later ERP components triggered during covert attentional shifts are insensitive to physical cue attributes, and thus appear to be genuine electrophysiological correlates of covert attentional control mechanisms.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Sarah Hall
    Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2019 15:42
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:56
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30220

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