A specific role for the thalamus in mediating the interaction of attention and arousal in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 8979-8989

  Portas, C M ^a   Rees, G ^a   Howseman, A M ^a   Josephs, O ^a   Turner, R ^a   Frith, C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; fMRI; Humans; Sleep deprivation; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032211048     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-08979.1998     Document Type: Article

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