Attending multiple items decreases the selectivity of population responses in human primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 9273-9282

  Anderson, David E ^a   Ester, Edward F ^b   Serences, John T ^b,c   Awh, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84878335320     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0239-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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