Hemifield effects of spatial attention in early human visual cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2349-2358

  Kraft, Antje ^a   Kehrer, Stefanie ^a,b   Hagendorf, Herbert ^b   Brandt, Stephan A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous attention; FMRI; Spatial vision; Topographic mapping; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79959344427     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07709.x     Document Type: Article

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