Neural mechanisms of surround attenuation and distractor competition in visual search

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5213-5224

  Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b   Tsotsos, John K ^c   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^a   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Hopf, Jens Max ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED MAGNETIC FIELD RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

EID: 79955747002     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6406-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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