Attention: Control in the Visual Cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Mangun, George R ^a   Fannon, Sean P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; GENICULATE BODY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33847301421     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.028     Document Type: Short Survey

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