The spatial profile of the focus of attention in visual search: Insights from MEG recordings

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1312-1320

  Hopf, Jens Max ^a   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Tsotsos, John K ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human; MEG; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELECTIVE TUNING MODEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954762518     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.01.015     Document Type: Article

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