Stimulus saliency modulates pre-attentive processing speed in human visual cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Töllner, Thomas ^a   Zehetleitner, Michael ^a   Gramann, Klaus ^b   Müller, Hermann J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POSTERIOR CONTRALATERAL NEGATIVITY; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STIMULUS SALIENCY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251620509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016276     Document Type: Article

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