Push-pull mechanism of selective attention in human extrastriate cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 622-629

  Pinsk, Mark A ^a   Doniger, Glen M ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 3042636481     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00974.2003     Document Type: Article

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