Attenuation of spatial attentional asymmetries with poor sustained attention

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1065-1069

  Bellgrove, Mark A ^a   Dockree, Paul M ^a   Aimola, Lina ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Attention; Greyscales Task; Neglect; Spatial attention; Spatial bias; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 2342569742     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200404290-00027     Document Type: Article

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