Modulation of neuronal responses during covert search for visual feature conjunctions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 39, 2009, Pages 16853-16858

  Buracas, Giedrius T ^a,b   Albright, Thomas D ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Extrastriate cortex; Motion; Visual area MT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349755718     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908455106     Document Type: Article

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