Attention selects informative neural populations in human V1

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 16379-16390

  Verghese, Preeti ^a   Kim, Yee Joon ^a   Wade, Alex R ^a,b  

^a SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869062222     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1174-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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