Attention increases neural selectivity in the human lateral occipital complex

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-74

  Murray, Scott O ^a,c   Wojciulik, Ewa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; FUNCTIONAL NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATERAL OCCIPITAL CORTEX; MODEL; NEURAL SELECTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0345923837     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1161     Document Type: Article

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