Spatial attention triggered by eye gaze enhances and speeds up visual processing in upper and lower visual fields beyond early striate visual processing

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2565-2576

  Schuller, Anne Marie ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

C1; Eye gaze; Primary visual cortex; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 27544433932     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.07.021     Document Type: Article

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