Typologies of attentional networks

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 367-379

  Raz, Amir ^a   Buhle, Jason ^b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NERVE NET;

EID: 33744933102     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1903     Document Type: Review

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