Topography of covert visual attention in human superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3074-3083

  Katyal, Sucharit ^a   Zughni, Samir ^a   Greene, Clint ^a   Ress, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650927632     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00283.2010     Document Type: Article

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