Generalized deficits in visual selective attention after V4 and TEO lesions in macaques

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1671-1691

  De Weerd, Peter ^a,b   Desimone, Robert ^a   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrastriate cortex; Perception; Rhesus monkey; Ventral stream; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DISTRACTIBILITY; EYE FIXATION; LUMINANCE; MACACA; MALE; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141816695     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02862.x     Document Type: Article

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