The effects of unilateral pulvinar damage in humans on reflexive orienting and filtering of irrelevant information

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 95-104

  Danziger, Shai ^a   Ward, Robert ^b   Owen, Vanessa ^b   Rafal, Robert ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Interference; Orienting; Pulvinar; Selection; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0035782851     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2002/917570     Document Type: Article

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