Attentional modulation of perceptual grouping in human visual cortex: ERP studies

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 199-209

  Han, Shihui ^a,b   Jiang, Yi ^a   Mao, Lihua ^a   Humphreys, Glyn W ^c   Qin, Jungang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Calcarine cortex; ERPs; Perceptual grouping; Proximity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744572669     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20157     Document Type: Article

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