Top-down attentional deficits in Macaques with lesions of lateral prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 11306-11314

  Rossi, Andrew F ^a,c   Bichot, Narcisse P ^a   Desimone, Robert ^a,b   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Pop out; Primate; Salience; Split brain; Switching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; MACACA; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35448978046     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2939-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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