Single-trial classification of parallel pre-attentive and serial attentive processes using functional magnetic resonance imaging

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1237-1245

  Piazza, Manuela ^a,b   Giacomini, Eric ^a   Le Bihan, Denis ^a   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Counting; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Parietal; Subitizing

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 0038237015     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2356     Document Type: Article

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