Neural mechanisms of human perceptual choice under focused and divided attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3485-3498

  Wyart, Valentin ^a   Myers, Nicholas E ^b,c   Summerfield, Christopher ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Decision making; EEG; Human; Model based

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84946166328     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3276-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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