The advantage in being magnocellular: A few more remarks on attention and the magnocellular system

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1409-1415

  Laycock, R ^a   Crewther, D P ^a,b   Crewther, S G ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention; Dorsal stream; Feedback; Magnocellular; Primary visual cortex; Ventral stream

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 52049103587     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.04.008     Document Type: Review

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