Perceptual load-dependent neural correlates of distractor interference inhibition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Xu, Jiansong ^a   Monterosso, John ^b   Kober, Hedy ^a   Balodis, Iris M ^a   Potenza, Marc N ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL LOAD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79251587236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014552     Document Type: Article

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