Attention enhances the neural processing of relevant features and suppresses the processing of irrelevant features in humans: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of the stroop task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 13786-13792

  Polk, Thad A ^a,b   Drake, Robert M ^b   Jonides, John J ^a,b   Smith, Mason R ^a   Smith, Edward E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Enhancement; Feature based; Functional MRI; Stroop task; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149385776     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1026-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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