The cognitive neuroscience of sustained attention: Where top-down meets bottom-up

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 146-160

  Sarter, Martin ^a   Givens, Ben ^a   Bruno, John P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Attention; Basal forebrain; Cortex

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COGNITION; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 0035005031     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(01)00044-3     Document Type: Review

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