The effects of feature attention on prestimulus cortical activity in the human visual system

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1664-1675

  Shibata, Kazuhisa ^a,b   Yamagishi, Noriko ^b,c   Goda, Naokazu ^d   Yoshioka, Taku ^b,c   Yamashita, Okito ^b   Sato, Masa Aki ^b   Kawato, Mitsuo ^a,b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color; Feature attention; Hierarchical Bayesian estimation; MEG; Motion; Preparatory activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 45849087988     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm194     Document Type: Article

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