Selective attention increases the dependency of cortical responses on visual motion coherence in man

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2902-2908

  Händel, Barbara ^a,b   Lutzenberger, Werner ^a   Thier, Peter ^b   Haarmeier, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Delta oscillations; Magnetoencephalography; Signal to noise ratio; Visual motion perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 56349102546     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn049     Document Type: Article

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