PET study of the human foveal fixation system

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-43

  Petit, Laurent ^a   Dubois, Samuel ^b   Tzourio, Nathalie ^a   Dejardin, Stephane ^b   Crivello, Fabrice ^a   Michel, Christian ^b   Etard, Olivier ^a   Denise, Pierre ^a   Roucoux, André ^b   Mazoyer, Bernard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c GIP CYCERON   (France)

Author keywords

NrCBF; PET; REST

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REST; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0033000425     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1999)8:1<28::AID-HBM3>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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