Emotion modulates the effects of endogenous attention on retinotopic visual processing

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1542-1551

  Gomez, Ana ^a   Rothkirch, Marcus ^a   Kaul, Christian ^b,c   Weygandt, Martin ^d   Haynes, John Dylan ^d   Rees, Geraint ^b   Sterzer, Philipp ^a,d,e  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^e Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Retinotopic mapping; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOPIC VISUAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960209026     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.072     Document Type: Article

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