The functional and temporal characteristics of top-down modulation in visual selection

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1290-1298

  Rose, Michael ^a   Schmid, Carmen ^a   Winzen, Almut ^a   Sommer, Tobias ^a   Büchel, Christian ^a  

^a University of Medical School Hamburg Eppendorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Load; LOC; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23944461376     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi012     Document Type: Article

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