A common neural mechanism for preventing and terminating the allocation of attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 10725-10736

  Sawaki, Risa ^a   Geng, Joy J ^a   Luck, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864482368     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1864-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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