Effect of distracting faces on visual selective attention in the monkey

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 50, 2014, Pages 18037-18042

  Landman, Rogier ^a   Sharma, Jitendra ^b,c,d   Sur, Mriganka ^b,e   Desimone, Robert ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Simons Center for the Social Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Faces; Oxytocin; Social; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GRATING; MACACA; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PUPIL REFLEX; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBCORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; EMOTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY;

PRIMATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; MACACA MULATTA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84919360517     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420167111     Document Type: Article

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