Pulvinar and affective significance: Responses track moment-to-moment stimulus visibility

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Padmala, Srikanth ^a   Lim, Seung Lark ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Conditioning; Emotion; Subcortical pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PULVINAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77958462156     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00064     Document Type: Article

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