The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 284-291

  Hopfinger, J B ^a   Buonocore, M H ^b   Mangun, G R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034056319     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72999     Document Type: Article

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