Visual flicker in the gamma-band range does not draw attention

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1606-1613

  Van Diepen, Rosanne M ^a,b   Born, Sabine ^a   Souto, David ^a,c   Gauch, Angélique ^a   Kerzel, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77949754965     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00629.2009     Document Type: Article

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