Spatial attention improves reliability of fMRI retinotopic mapping signals in occipital and parietal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 526-533

  Bressler, David W ^a,b   Silver, Michael A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956063167     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.063     Document Type: Article

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