Attention gates visual coding in the human pulvinar

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fischer, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PULVINAR; SENSORY GATING; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PULVINAR; THALAMUS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866976173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2054     Document Type: Article

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