Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 940-945

  Ress, David ^a   Backus, Benjamin T ^a   Heeger, David J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033857961     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/78856     Document Type: Article

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