Attention improves transfer of motion information between V1 and MT

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3586-3596

  Saproo, Sameer ^a,b   Serences, John T ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlations; fMRI; Gain; Information theory; MT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; CHANNEL RESPONSE MODULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MODULATION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINOTOPIC MAP; SIMULATION; STIMULUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

CORRELATIONS; FMRI; GAIN; INFORMATION THEORY; MT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895464405     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3484-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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