The left parietal cortex and motor attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1261-1273

  Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a   Nixon, Philip D ^a   Renowden, Shelley ^b   Wade, Derick T ^c   Passingham, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c RIVERMEAD REHABILITATION CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Ideomotor apraxia; Movement sequences; Parietal cortex; Supramarginal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; APRAXIAS; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030881295     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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