Preparatory patterns of neural activity predict visual category search speed

NeuroImage

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-222

  Soon, Chun Siong ^a   Namburi, Praneeth ^a   Chee, Michael W L ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

FMRI; LOC; MVPA; Preparatory attention; Visual semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

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

EID: 84870007989     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

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