A Neural Marker of Content-Specific Active Ignoring.

The ability to attend to relevant events and to ignore irrelevant stimuli is crucial to survival. Theories disagree on whether this ability is dependent solely on increased neural activation for relevant items or whether active ignoring can also play a role. The authors examined the active ignoring...

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Published in:	Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception & Performance Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 286 - 298
Main Authors:	Allen, Harriet A., Humphreys, Glyn W., Matthews, Paul M.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association April 2008
Subjects:	Attention Magnetic resonance imaging Brain function localization
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost