Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: A neurobiological hypothesis

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 977-986

  Sonuga Barke, Edmund J S ^a,b   Castellanos, F Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Attentional lapses; Default mode; Low frequency oscillations; Reaction time variability; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROBIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34548251341     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2007.02.005     Document Type: Review

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