Quantitative Analysis of Attention and Detection Signals during Visual Search

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3384-3397

  Shulman, Gordon L ^a,b   McAvoy, Mark P ^a   Cowan, Melanie C ^a   Astafiev, Serguei V ^a   Tansy, Aaron P ^a   D'Avossa, Giovanni ^a   Corbetta, Maurizio ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 8111 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EYE TRACKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0242593277     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00343.2003     Document Type: Article

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