Enhanced performance with brain stimulation: Attentional shift or visual cue?

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 44, 2006, Pages 11347-11358

  Cavanaugh, James ^a   Alvarez, Bryan D ^a   Wurtz, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Colliculus; Macaque; Phosphene; Stimulation; Visual

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HAPLORHINI; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33750954382     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2376-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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