Neural mechanisms involved in the processing of global and local aspects of hierarchically organized visual stimuli

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1779-1791

  Fink, Gereon R ^a   Halligan, Peter W ^c,d   Marshall, John C ^c   Frith, Chris D ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d RIVERMEAD REHABILITATION CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Global local processing; PET; Prestriate cortex; Temporal parietal cortex; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030846479     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.10.1779     Document Type: Article

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