Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: Electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1257-1270

  Hillyard, Steven A ^a   Vogel, Edward K ^b   Luck, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; ERPs; Evoked potentials; PET; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578301     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0281     Document Type: Article

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