Human cortical mechanisms of visual attention during orienting and search

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1353-1362

  Corbetta, Maurizio ^a,b   Shulman, Gordon L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortex; Eye movements; Neuroimaging; Search; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578262     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0289     Document Type: Article

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