Localizing subprocesses of visual search by correlating local brain activation in fMRI with response time model parameters

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 316-330

  Müller Plath, Gisela ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dwell time; fMRI; Imaging; Mathematical model; Parameter estimation; Selection; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 43449131218     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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