Spatiotemporal dynamics of early spatial and category-specific attentional modulations

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1638-1651

  Ioannides, Andreas A ^a   Poghosyan, Vahe ^a  

^a AAI SCIENTIFIC CULTURAL SERVICES LTD   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Attention; Early visual processing; Magnetic field tomography (MFT); Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Processing phases; Source imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FACE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD TOMOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857759366     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.121     Document Type: Article

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