Temporal windows in visual processing: "prestimulus brain state" and "poststimulus phase reset" segregate visual transients on different temporal scales

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1554-1565

  Wutz, Andreas ^a   Weisz, Nathan ^a   Braun, Christoph ^a,b   Melcher, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integration; MEG; Oscillations; Phase reset; Segregation; Visual response

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; MEG; OSCILLATIONS; PHASE RESET; SEGREGATION; VISUAL RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84892700197     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3187-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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