fMRI evidence for objects as the units of attentional selection

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6753, 1999, Pages 584-587

  O'Craven, Kathleen M ^a,b,c   Downing, Paul E ^a,c   Kanwisher, Nancy ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Radcliffe College   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FACE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033533889     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44134     Document Type: Article

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