Neural mechanisms of object-based attention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1080-1092

  Cohen, Elias H ^a   Tong, Frank ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; fusiform face area; human visual cortex; multivariate pattern analysis; parahippocampal place area; visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; BRAIN FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT BASED ATTENTION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOUSING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HOUSING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926677566     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht303     Document Type: Article

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