Neural basis for priming of pop-out during visual search revealed with fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1612-1624

  Kristjánsson, Árni ^a,b   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^c   Schwartz, Sophie ^c   MacAluso, Emiliano ^d   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FMRI; Priming; Repetition suppression attention; Visul pop out

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34547667467     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl072     Document Type: Article

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