Name: Attention: Control in the Visual Cortex
Keywords: Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Thalamus, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Visual Perception, Geniculate Bodies, Humans, Attention, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Visual Cortex

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 2007 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Current Biology, volume 17, pages R170-R172 (issn: 0960-9822,

Authors: Sean P. Fannon; George R. Mangun;

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.028

pmid: 17339016

Attention: Control in the Visual Cortex

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A recent study in which the human visual cortex was directly stimulated to create visual percepts has shown that visual spatial attention can act directly on neural activity in sensory cortex without involving attentional modulation of subcortical visual inputs.

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University of California, Davis
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all), Thalamus, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all), Visual Perception, Geniculate Bodies, Humans, Attention, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Visual Cortex

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