Bihemispheric leftward bias in a visuospatial attention-related network

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 11271-11278

  Siman Tov, Tali ^a   Mendelsohn, Avi ^a   Schonberg, Tom ^a   Avidan, Galia ^a,b   Podlipsky, Ilana ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^c,d   Gadoth, Natan ^e,f   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^c   Hendler, Talma ^a,e  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f MAAYANEI HAYESHUA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; DCM; fMRI; Intraparietal sulcus; Lateralization; Neglect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEGLECT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35448987622     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0599-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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