On the neural basis of focused and divided attention

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 760-776

  Nebel, Katharina ^a   Wiese, Holger ^a   Stude, Philipp ^a   De Greiff, Armin ^a   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a   Keidel, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Bezirkskrankenhaus Bayreuth   (Germany)

Author keywords

Divided attention; fMRI; Focused attention; Mental load

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 28844499103     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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