Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-215

  Corbetta, Maurizio ^a   Shulman, Gordon L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVIEW; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOLITION;

EID: 0036517313     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn755     Document Type: Article

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