The physiological basis of attentional modulation in extrastriate visual areas

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 671-676

  Chawla, D ^a   Rees, G ^a   Friston, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033360177     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10230     Document Type: Article

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