Attentional modulation in visual cortex depends on task timing

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6907, 2002, Pages 616-620

  Ghose, Geoffrey M ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PROBABILITY; VISION;

SENSORY NEURONS;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

VISUALIZATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 0037057609     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01057     Document Type: Article

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