Shape-specific preparatory activity mediates attention to targets in human visual cortex

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

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19569-19574

  Stokes, Mark ^a,b   Thompson, Russell ^b   Nobre, Anna C ^a   Duncan, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Top down bias; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349097283     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905306106     Document Type: Article

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