Attentional selection in visual perception, memory and action: A quest for cross-domain integration

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1628, 2013, Pages

  Schneider, Werner X ^a   Einhäuser, Wolfgang ^a,b   Horstmann, Gernot ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Priority; Real world; Task; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; COGNITION; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; SELECTION; VISION;

ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; GOALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883892067     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0053     Document Type: Article

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