Selective spatial attention in vision and touch: Unimodal and multimodal mechanisms revealed by PET

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 3062-3075

  Macaluso, Emiliano ^a,b,c   Frith, Chris ^a   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0034127843     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.3062     Document Type: Article

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