Prestimulus hemodynamic activity in dorsal attention network is negatively associated with decision confidence in visual perception

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1529-1536

  Rahnev, Dobromir A ^a,b   Bahdo, Linda ^a   de Lange, Floris P ^b   Lau, Hakwan ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Perceptual decision making; Spontaneous fluctuation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; DECISION MAKING; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865830420     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00184.2012     Document Type: Article

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