Spatially selective representations of voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional priority in human occipital, parietal, and frontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 284-293

  Serences, John T ^a,b   Yantis, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Salience map; Stimulus driven; Visual attention; Voluntary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COLOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MODULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TARGET VARIABLE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VOLITION;

EID: 33845968456     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj146     Document Type: Article

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