Neural basis of interaction between target presence and display homogeneity in visual search: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 993-1001

  Wei, Ping ^a,b,c   Müller, Hermann J ^c   Pollmann, Stefan ^d   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Display homogeneity; Feature search; fMRI; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 61649125784     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.053     Document Type: Article

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