Optimal deployment of attentional gain during fine discriminations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7723-7733

  Scolari, Miranda ^a   Byers, Anna ^a   Serences, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861627264     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5558-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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