Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1203-1209

  O'Connor, Daniel H ^a   Fukui, Miki M ^a   Pinsk, Mark A ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0036829081     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn957     Document Type: Article

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