Dissociating the effect of noise on sensory processing and overall decision difficulty

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2663-2674

  Bankó, Éva M ^a   Gál, Viktor ^a   Körtvélyes, Judit ^a   Kovács, Gyula ^b,c   Vidnyánszky, Zoltán ^a,d  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE TRACKING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NOISE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951845455     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2725-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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