Visuomotor origins of covert spatial attention

Neuron

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 671-683

  Moore, Tirin ^a,c   Armstrong, Katherine M ^a,c   Fallah, Mazyar ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

EID: 0242405766     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00716-5     Document Type: Review

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