Attentional Modulations Related to Spatial Gating but Not to Allocation of Limited Resources in Primate V1

Neuron

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 557-566

  Chen, Yuzhi ^a   Seidemann, Eyal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GATING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; VOLTAGE SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HAPLORHINI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY GATING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLTAGE-SENSITIVE DYE IMAGING;

EID: 84860700317     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.03.033     Document Type: Article

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