The role of the pulvinar in distractor processing and visual search

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1115-1132

  Strumpf, Hendrick ^a,b   Mangun, George R ^c   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b,d   Stoppel, Christian ^a,b   Schoenfeld, Mircea A ^a,b   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b   Hopf, Jens Max ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; FMRI; Thalamus; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875898218     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21496     Document Type: Article

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