Attention does more than modulate suppressive interactions: Attending to multiple items

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-304

  Scalf, Paige E ^a   Basak, Chandramalika ^b   Beck, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; fMRI; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959718307     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2730-z     Document Type: Article

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