Top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in biasing competition in the human brain

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1154-1165

  Beck, Diane M ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Brain; fMRI; Suppression; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67349133754     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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