Attentional load modifies early activity in human primary visual cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1723-1733

  Rauss, Karsten S ^a   Pourtois, Gilles ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a,b   Schwartz, Sophie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Attention; C1; EEG; V1; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66149149474     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20636     Document Type: Article

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