Monitoring for target objects: Activation of right frontal and parietal cortices with increasing time on task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1325-1334

  Coull, J T ^a   Frackowiak, R S J ^a   Frith, C D ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; PET; Selective attention; Sustained attention; Target detection; Thalamus; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032427563     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(98)00035-9     Document Type: Article

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