When attention wanders: How uncontrolled fluctuations in attention affect performance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15802-15806

  Cohen, Marlene R ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80155137414     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3063-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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