Exploring the Impact of Target Eccentricity and Task Difficulty on Covert Visual Spatial Attention and Its Implications for Brain Computer Interfacing

Linsey Roijendijk; Jason Farquhar; Marcel van Gerven; Ole Jensen; Stan Gielen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080489

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Exploring the Impact of Target Eccentricity and Task Difficulty on Covert Visual Spatial Attention and Its Implications for Brain Computer Interfacing

Linsey Roijendijk ,

* E-mail: l.roijendijk@donders.ru.nl

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Jason Farquhar,

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Marcel van Gerven,

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Ole Jensen,

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Stan Gielen

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Exploring the Impact of Target Eccentricity and Task Difficulty on Covert Visual Spatial Attention and Its Implications for Brain Computer Interfacing

Linsey Roijendijk,
Jason Farquhar,
Marcel van Gerven,
Ole Jensen,
Stan Gielen

Published: December 3, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080489

About the Authors

Linsey Roijendijk

* E-mail: l.roijendijk@donders.ru.nl

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jason Farquhar

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Marcel van Gerven

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Ole Jensen

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Stan Gielen

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR JF MvG OJ SG. Performed the experiments: LR. Analyzed the data: LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JF MvG OJ SG. Wrote the paper: LR JF SG MvG.

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