Spatial attention boosts short-latency neural responses in human visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1968-1978

  Mishra, Jyoti ^a   Martínez, Antígona ^b,c   Schroeder, Charles E ^c   Hillyard, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha; EEG synchrony; ERPs; Spatial attention; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055186657     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.028     Document Type: Article

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