Neural mechanisms of spatial- and feature-based attention: A quantitative analysis

Brain Research

Volumn 1181, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-60

  Stoppel, Christian Michael ^a   Boehler, Carsten Nicolas ^b   Sabelhaus, Clemens ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b   Hopf, Jens Max ^a,b   Schoenfeld, Mircea Ariel ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color; Feature based attention; fMRI; Motion; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COLOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 35748981220     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.07.019     Document Type: Article

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