Neural correlates of sustained spatial attention in human early visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 229-237

  Silver, Michael A ^a,b   Ress, David ^a,c   Heeger, David J ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846435757     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00677.2006     Document Type: Article

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