Attentional Load Modulates Responses of Human Primary Visual Cortex to Invisible Stimuli

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 509-513

  Bahrami, Bahador ^a,b   Lavie, Nilli ^a,b   Rees, Geraint ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947105337     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.01.070     Document Type: Article

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