Voluntary attention changes the speed of perceptual neural processing

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3163-3172

  Noguchi, Yasuki ^a,b,c   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^a   Sadato, Norihiro ^a   Hoshiyama, Minoru ^b   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Humans; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Ventral pathway; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 34250018285     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05552.x     Document Type: Article

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