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SUBMITTER: Busch NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2941320 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100830 37
An important effect of sustained attention is the facilitation of perception. Although the term "sustained" suggests that this beneficial effect endures continuously as long as something is attended, we present electrophysiological evidence that perception at attended locations is actually modulated periodically. Subjects detected brief light flashes that were presented peripherally at locations that were either attended or unattended. We analyzed the correlation between detection performance fo ...[more]