Pre-stimulus activity predicts the winner of top-down vs. bottom-up attentional selection.

Our ability to process visual information is fundamentally limited. This leads to competition between sensory information that is relevant for top-down goals and sensory information that is perceptually salient, but task-irrelevant. The aim of the present study was to identify, from EEG recordings,...

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Main Authors: Ali Mazaheri, Nicholas E DiQuattro, Jesse Bengson, Joy J Geng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3046127?pdf=render