Spatiotopic coding of BOLD signal in human visual cortex depends on spatial attention

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Crespi, Sofia ^a,b   Biagi, Laura ^c   d'Avossa, Giovanni ^d   Burr, David C ^a,e   Tosetti, Michela ^c   Morrone, Maria Concetta ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINA FOVEA; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL AREA LO; VISUAL AREA MST; VISUAL AREA MT; VISUAL AREA V6; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLOOD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HISTOLOGY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VASCULARIZATION; VISION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960046913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021661     Document Type: Article

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