Behavioral performance follows the time course of neural facilitation and suppression during cued shifts of feature-selective attention

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

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13878-13882

  Andersen, S K ^a   Muller M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Human EEG; Neural mechanisms of shifting; Random dot kinematogram; Steady state visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COLOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956361398     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002436107     Document Type: Article

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