Functional size of human visual area V1: A neural correlate of top-down attention

NeuroImage

Volumn 93, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 47-52

  Verghese, Ashika ^a   Kolbe, Scott C ^a   Anderson, Andrew J ^a   Egan, Gary F ^a,b   Vidyasagar, Trichur R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

FMRI; Primary visual cortex; Reading; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896947762     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.023     Document Type: Article

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