Topography of attention in the primary visual cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 188-196

  Simola, Jaana ^a,b   Stenbacka, Linda ^a   Vanni, Simo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Feedback connections; Human; Multifocal functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neural architecture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149109094     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06558.x     Document Type: Article

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