Top-down Modulation of Neural Activity in Anticipatory Visual Attention: Control Mechanisms Revealed by Simultaneous EEG-fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 517-529

  Liu, Yuelu ^a,b   Bengson, Jesse ^b   Huang, Haiqing ^a   Mangun, George R ^b   Ding, Mingzhou ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Anterior cingulate cortex; Dorsal attention network; Simultaneous EEG fMRI; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VISION; ADOLESCENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957309853     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu204     Document Type: Article

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