Transient attention enhances perceptual performance and fMRI response in human visual cortex

Neuron

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 469-477

  Liu, Taosheng ^a   Pestilli, Franco ^a   Carrasco, Marisa ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 13244269914     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.039     Document Type: Article

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