Split of attentional resources in human visual cortex

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 817-826

  Morawetz, Carmen ^a,b   Holz, Petra ^a   Baudewig, Juergen ^a   Treue, Stefan ^a,b   Dechent, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Multiple spotlights theory; Single spotlight theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37549036667     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523807070745     Document Type: Article

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