Attentional effects in the visual pathways: A whole-brain PET study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 394-406

  Bundesen, Claus ^a   Larsen, Axel ^a   Kyllingsbæk, Søren ^a   Paulson, Olaf B ^b   Law, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exstrastriate; Parietal; Prefrontal; Striate; Thalamus; Working memory

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0036430154     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1243-1     Document Type: Article

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