Pre-stimulus activity predicts the winner of top-down vs. bottom-up attentional selection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Mazaheri, Ali ^a,b   DiQuattro, Nicholas E ^a   Bengson, Jesse ^a   Geng, Joy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PREDICTION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; TIME; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952223537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016243     Document Type: Article

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