Neural correlates of learning to attend

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kelley, Todd A ^a   Yantis, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distraction; Filtering; Fmri; Practice; Ventral attention network; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 79953011320     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00216     Document Type: Article

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