Modulation of visual processing by attention and emotion: Windows on causal interactions between human brain regions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1481, 2007, Pages 837-855

  Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a   Driver, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Electroencephalography; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Vision

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; IMAGING METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; RESONANCE; VISION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250339697     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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