Working memory encoding delays top-down attention to visual cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2593-2604

  Scalf, Paige E ^a   Dux, Paul E ^b   Marois, René ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY ENCODING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960141468     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21621     Document Type: Article

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