Differential attentional modulation of cortical responses to S-cone and luminance stimuli

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Wang, Jun ^a   Wade, Alex R ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Color vision; Contrast gain; Evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETINA CONE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 80051942099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.6.1     Document Type: Article

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