Independence of anticipatory signals for spatial attention from number of nontarget stimuli in the visual field

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 829-838

  Sestieri, C ^a,b   Sylvester, C M ^b   Jack, A I ^b,c   D'Avossa, G ^b,d   Shulman, G L ^b   Corbetta, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; ROC CURVE; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ROC CURVE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 55249084637     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00030.2008     Document Type: Article

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