Processing efficiency of divided spatial attention mechanisms in human visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2005, Pages 9444-9448

  McMains, Stephanie A ^a   Somers, David C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Human; Occipital; Spatial; Visual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION LEVEL DEPENDENT SIGNAL; DIVIDED SPATIAL ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTIPLE SPOTLIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; ZOOM LENS;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 26844534580     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2647-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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