Active ignoring in early visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2046-2058

  Payne, Helen E ^a   Allen, Harriet A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251490919     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21562     Document Type: Article

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