Attention to one or two features in left or right visual field: A positron emission tomography study

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3739-3750

  Vandenberghe, Rik ^a,d   Duncan, John ^b   Dupont, Patrick ^c   Ward, Robert ^b,e   Poline, Jean Baptiste ^d   Bormans, Guy ^c   Michiels, Johan ^c   Mortelmans, Luc ^c   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

covert attention; direction of attention; human brain mapping; prefrontal; pulvinar; superior parietal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031006941     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03739.1997     Document Type: Article

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