Tactile attention tasks enhance activation in somatosensory regions of parietal cortex: A positron emission tomography study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 662-674

  Burton, H ^a,b   Abend, N S ^a   MacLeod, A M K ^b   Sinclair, R J ^a   Snyder, A Z ^a,b   Raichle, M E ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOUCH;

EID: 0032717157     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.7.662     Document Type: Article

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