Graded functional activation in the visuospatial system with the amount of task demand

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-24

  Carpenter, P A ^a   Just, M A ^b   Keller, T A ^b   Eddy, W ^b   Thulborn, K ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032955405     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563210     Document Type: Article

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