Cortical fMRI activation produced by attentive tracking of moving targets

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2657-2670

  Culham, Jody C ^a   Brandt, Stephan A ^b,c   Cavanagh, Patrick ^a   Kanwisher, Nancy G ^d   Dale, Anders M ^b   Tootell, Roger B H ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031731099     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2657     Document Type: Article

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