Common regions of dorsal anterior cingulate and prefrontal-parietal cortices provide attentional control of distracters varying in emotionality and visibility

NeuroImage

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 631-639

  Luo, Qian ^a   Mitchell, Derek ^a   Jones, Matthew ^a   Mondillo, Krystal ^a   Vythilingam, Meena ^a   Blair, R James R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; fMRI; Top down attentional control; Visibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISIBILITY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35148862140     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.07.051     Document Type: Article

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