Direct evidence for attention-dependent influences of the frontal eye-fields on feature-responsive visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2815-2821

  Heinen, Klaartje ^a,b   Feredoes, Eva ^a,d   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^b   Ruff, Christian C ^b,c   Driver, Jon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

concurrent TMS fMRI; feature attention; frontal eye fields; top down control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910601269     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht157     Document Type: Article

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