Earliest stages of visual cortical processing are not modified by attentional load

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3008-3024

  Ding, Yulong ^a,b,c   Martinez, Antigona ^b,d   Qu, Zhe ^a   Hillyard, Steven A ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; C1; Endogenous; Event related potential (ERP); Exogenous; Task irrelevant; Task relevant; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTICAL PROCESSING; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902178316     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22381     Document Type: Article

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