Tuning perceptual competition

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1057-1065

  Wascher, Edmund ^a   Beste, Christian ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749088510     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00376.2009     Document Type: Article

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