How do we select perceptions and actions? Human brain imaging studies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1283-1293

  Rees, Geraint ^a   Frith, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; FMRI; PET; Visual

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578302     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0283     Document Type: Article

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