Attention and biased competition in multi-voxel object representations

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

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21447-21452

  Reddy, Leila ^a,b   Kanwisher, Nancy G ^c   VanRullen, Rufin ^a,b  

^a Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Pattern classification; Response combination; Ventral temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 75849149703     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907330106     Document Type: Article

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