The role of the thalamus in 'top down' modulation of attention to sound

NeuroImage

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 210-215

  Frith, Chris D ^a   Friston, Karl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0030457496     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1996.0072     Document Type: Article

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