The center-surround profile of the focus of attention arises from recurrent processing in visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 982-991

  Boehler, C N ^a   Tsotsos, J K ^b   Schoenfeld, M A ^a,c,d   Heinze, H J ^a,b   Hopf, J M ^a,b,c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Kliniken Schmieder   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Magnetoencephalography; Spatial; Suppression; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROOCULOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651087235     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn139     Document Type: Article

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