Eye gaze does not produce reflexive shifts of attention: Evidence from frontal-lobe damage

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 150-159

  Vecera, Shaun P ^a   Rizzo, Matthew ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Eye gaze direction; Frontal lobes; Orbitofrontal cortex; Social attention; Theory of mind; Ventromedial frontal cortex

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PREDICTION; SPEECH; VISUAL ACUITY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN DISEASES; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28044455240     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.04.010     Document Type: Article

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