Activity in the visual cortex is modulated by top-down attention locked to reaction time

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 331-340

  Moradi, Farshad ^a   Hipp, Constanze ^b,c   Koch, Christof ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTRAST; CORPUS STRIATUM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33846875022     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.2.331     Document Type: Article

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