I know where you are secretly attending! The topography of human visual attention revealed with fMRI

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1037-1044

  Datta, Ritobrato ^a   DeYoe, Edgar A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI human; Neurophysiology; Spatial attention; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67349130779     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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