The influence of stimulus location on the brain activation pattern in detection and orientation discrimination. A PET study of visual attention

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1263-1276

  Vandenberghe, R ^a   Dupont, P ^b   De Bruyn, B ^a   Bormans, G ^b   Michiels, J ^b   Mortelmans, L ^b   Orban, G A ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inferior occipital lobe; Orientation discrimination; PET scan; Superior parietal lobe; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0029740386     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.4.1263     Document Type: Article

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