Attentional enhancement via selection and pooling of early sensory responses in human visual cortex

Neuron

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 832-846

  Pestilli, Franco ^a,b,c,d   Carrasco, Marisa ^b   Heeger, David J ^b   Gardner, Justin L ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 83355177255     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.09.025     Document Type: Article

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