Pupil size reflects the focus of feature-based attention

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3046-3052

  Binda, Paola ^a,b   Pereverzeva, Maria ^a   Murray, Scott O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attentional modulation of visual responses; Feature based attention; Motion defined surfaces; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PUPIL; PUPILLOMETRY; STIMULUS; EYE MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUPIL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918506508     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00502.2014     Document Type: Article

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