Top-down influences on visual processing

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 350-363

  Gilbert, Charles D ^a   Li, Wu ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84876664193     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3476     Document Type: Review

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