A backward progression of attentional effects in the ventral stream

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

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 361-365

  Buffalo, Elizabeth A ^a   Fries, Pascal ^b,c   Landman, Rogier ^d   Liang, Hualou ^e   Desimone, Robert ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Feedback; Macaque; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MALE; MODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL ROOT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 76249101904     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907658106     Document Type: Article

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