The modulatory impact of reward and attention on global feature selection in human visual cortex

Visual Cognition

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 229-248

  Hopf, J M ^a,b   Schoenfeld, M A ^a,b   Buschschulte, A ^b   Rautzenberg, A ^b   Krebs, R M ^c   Boehler, C N ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Human; Magnetoencephalography; Reward; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE BIAS; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MAGNETOMETER; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL EXTRASTRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84928938559     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2015.1011252     Document Type: Article

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