Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2399-2413

  Ciaramitaro, Vivian M ^a,b   Buračas, Giedrius T ^a   Boynton, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 35348850118     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00580.2007     Document Type: Article

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