Endogenous attention signals evoked by threshold contrast detection in human superior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 892-900

  Katyal, Sucharit ^a   Ress, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast detection; fMRI; Midbrain; Optic tectum; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTRAST; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST DETECTION; FMRI; MIDBRAIN; OPTIC TECTUM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84892426663     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3026-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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