Attention strongly increases oxygen metabolic response to stimulus in primary visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 601-607

  Moradi, Farshad ^a   Buračas, Giedrius T ^a   Buxton, Richard B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SPIN LABELS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054110225     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.078     Document Type: Article

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