The effect of spatial attention on contrast response functions in human visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-97

  Buracas, Giedrius T ^a,b   Boynton, Geoffrey M ^b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive; Contrast; fMRI; Functional imaging; Spatial attention; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33846123312     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3162-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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