Modulation of visual stimulus discrimination by sustained focal attention: An MEG study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1225-1229

  Pilz, Karin S ^a,c,d   Braun, Christoph ^a   Altpeter, Elke ^b   MacKeben, Manfred ^e   Trauzettel Klosinski, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^e SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645400408     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-1338     Document Type: Article

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