Neural representations of contextual guidance in visual search of real-world scenes

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 7846-7855

  Preston, Tim J ^a   Guo, Fei ^a   Das, Koel ^a,b   Giesbrecht, Barry ^a   Eckstein, Miguel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V3; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877118609     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5840-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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