The neural mechanisms for minimizing cross-modal distraction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 48, 2004, Pages 10941-10949

  Weissman, D H ^a   Warner, L M ^a   Woldorff, M G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Attention; Conflict; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Multisensory; Sensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GOALS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 10044277897     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3669-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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