Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18438-18447

  Jiang, Jiefeng ^a   Summerfield, Christopher ^b   Egner, Tobias ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887829055     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3308-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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