Visual attention as a multilevel selection process

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 483-500

  Kastner, Sabine ^a   Pinsk, Mark A ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SELECTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PULVINAR; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAGING; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 14844324483     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.4.4.483     Document Type: Review

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