Attention extracts signal in external noise: A BOLD fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1148-1159

  Lu, Zhong Lin ^a   Li, Xiangrui ^a   Tjan, Bosco S ^a   Dosher, Barbara A ^b   Chu, Wilson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; CASE REPORT; DYNAMICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79551662779     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21511     Document Type: Article

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