Brain activations during visual search: Contributions of search efficiency versus feature binding

NeuroImage

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-103

  Nobre, A C ^a,b   Coull, J T ^b   Walsh, V ^a   Frith, C D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binding; Feature integration; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Spatial attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037225205     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1329     Document Type: Article

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