Interactions between attention and perceptual grouping in human visual cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 1078, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-111

  Khoe, W ^a   Freeman, E ^b   Woldorff, M G ^c   Mangun, G R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; ERPs; Extrastriate cortex; Lateral interaction; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646493634     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.12.083     Document Type: Article

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