Fundamental components of attention

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue , 2007, Pages 57-78

  Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Stimulus selection; Superior colliculus; Vision; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; COGNITION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 34547653665     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.30.051606.094256     Document Type: Review

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