Attention improves object representation in visual cortical field potentials

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 32, 2009, Pages 10120-10130

  Rotermund, David ^a   Taylor, Katja ^a   Ernst, Udo A ^a   Kreiter, Andreas K ^a   Pawelzik, Klaus R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; GAMMA RHYTHM; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68849104016     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5508-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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