Occipital Alpha Activity during Stimulus Processing Gates the Information Flow to Object-Selective Cortex

PLoS Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Zumer, Johanna M ^a   Scheeringa, René ^a   Schoffelen, Jan Mathijs ^a,b   Norris, David G ^a   Jensen, Ole ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAL OSCILLATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY GATING; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSORY GATING; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920413792     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001965     Document Type: Article

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