Beyond topographic representation: Decoding visuospatial attention from local activity patterns in the human frontal cortex

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-210

  Kalberlah, Christian ^a,b   Chen, Yi ^a,b   Heinzle, Jakob ^b   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; human frontal cortex; multivoxel pattern analysis; visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ACTIVITY; BRAIN SIGNALS; CORTICAL NETWORK; CORTICAL REGIONS; FMRI; FRONTAL AREAS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLOBAL PROCESSING; LOCAL ACTIVITY; LOCAL PATTERNS; LOCAL PROCESSING; MULTIVOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SURFACE-BASED; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION; VISUAL AREAS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESONANCE; SIGNAL SYSTEMS;

BRAIN;

EID: 79955917044     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: 10981098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ima.20278     Document Type: Article

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