Independent effects of attentional gain control and competitive interactions on visual stimulus processing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 940-946

  Keitel, Christian ^a   Andersen, Soren K ^a,b   Quigley, Cliodhna ^a,c   Müller, Matthias M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

biased competition; human visual cortex; sensory gain control; steady state visual evoked potentials; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPETITION; COMPETITIVE INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875164234     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs084     Document Type: Article

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