The relationship between task performance and functional magnetic resonance imaging response

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3023-3031

  Buracas, Giedrius T ^a,b   Fine, Ione ^c   Boynton, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast; fMRI; Motion; Speed; Task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 16244396406     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4476-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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