Attention reverses the effect of prediction in silencing sensory signals

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2197-2206

  Kok, Peter ^a   Rahnev, Dobromir ^a,b   Jehee, Janneke F M ^a   Lau, Hakwan C ^a,b   De Lange, Floris P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

expectation; fMRI; predictive coding; spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864937582     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr310     Document Type: Article

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