Spontaneous neural fluctuations predict decisions to attend

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2578-2584

  Bengson, Jesse J ^a   Kelley, Todd A ^a   Zhang, Xiaoke ^a   Wang, Jane Ling ^a   Mangun, George R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE POSITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPONTANEOUS NEURAL FLUCTUATION; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84907454227     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00650     Document Type: Article

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