Intrinsic fluctuations in sustained attention and distractor processing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1724-1730

  Esterman, Michael ^a,b   Rosenberg, Monica D ^a,c   Noonan, Sarah K ^a,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional fluctuations; Attentional states; Distraction; fMRI; Repetition attenuation; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTIONAL FLUCTUATIONS; ATTENTIONAL STATES; DISTRACTION; FMRI; REPETITION ATTENUATION; SUSTAINED ATTENTION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893076176     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2658-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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