Decoding covert spatial attention using electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals in humans

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2285-2293

  Gunduz, Aysegul ^a,b   Brunner, Peter ^a,b   Daitch, Amy ^c   Leuthardt, Eric C ^c,d   Ritaccio, Anthony L ^b   Pesaran, Bijan ^e   Schalk, Gerwin ^a,b,d,f  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Electrocorticography (ECoG); Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84858733510     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.017     Document Type: Article

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