Limitations on visual information processing in the sleep-deprived brain and their underlying mechanisms

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-63

  Chee, Michael WL ^a  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATTENTION; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY DISORDER; PERCEPTION; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84920088489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23521546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.10.003     Document Type: Review

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