Sustained multifocal attentional enhancement of stimulus processing in early visual areas predicts tracking performance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5346-5351

  Störmer, Viola S ^a,b,f   Winther, Gesche N ^b,c   Li, Shu Chen ^b,d   Andersen, Søren K ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877061272     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4015-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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