Modulation of human extrastriate visual processing by selective attention to colours and words

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1357-1368

  Nobre, Anna C ^a,b   Allison, Truett ^a   McCarthy, Gregory ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Extrastriate cortex; Top down modulation; Visual selective attention

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031817569     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.7.1357     Document Type: Article

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