Attentional control of sensory tuning in human visual perception

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1260-1274

  Paltoglou, Aspasia E ^a   Neri, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motion and orientation processing; Noise image classification; Tuning curve

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY TUNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857262186     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00776.2011     Document Type: Article

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