Visual search deficits in Parkinson's disease are attenuated by bottom-up target salience and top-down information

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1962-1977

  Horowitz, Todd S ^a   Choi, Won Yung ^b   Horvitz, Jon C ^c   Côté, Lucien J ^d   Mangels, Jennifer A ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Conjunction search; Dopamine; Feature search; Striatum

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; NOISE; PARKINSON DISEASE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SEARCH DEFICIT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745279578     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.037     Document Type: Article

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