Dissociated α-band modulations in the dorsal and ventral visual pathways in visuospatial attention and perception

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 550-561

  Capilla, Almudena ^a,b   Schoffelen, Jan Mathijs ^d   Paterson, Gavin ^b   Thut, Gregor ^b,c   Gross, Joachim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha; Beamforming; Brain oscillations; Magnetoencephalography; Spatial orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION;

ALPHA; BEAMFORMING; BRAIN OSCILLATIONS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ORIENTING;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896367053     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs343     Document Type: Article

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