The neural site of attention matches the spatial scale of perception

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 3532-3540

  Hopf, Jens Max ^a,b   Luck, Steven J ^c   Boelmans, Kai ^a   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^a   Boehler, Carsten N ^b   Rieger, Jochem ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Human; MEG; Spatial scale; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33645450960     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4510-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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