Cerebral correlates of alerting, orienting and reorienting of visuospatial attention: An event-related fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 318-328

  Thiel, Christiane M ^a   Zilles, Karl ^a,b   Fink, Gereon R ^a,c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disengagement; Neuroimaging; Parietal cortex; Posner task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 1642451923     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.08.044     Document Type: Article

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