Cortical mechanisms for shifting and holding visuospatial attention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-125

  Kelley, Todd A ^a   Serences, John T ^b   Giesbrecht, Barry ^c   Yantis, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal eye fields (FEF); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Intraparietal sulcus (IPS); Posterior parietal cortex (PPC); Superior parietal lobule (SPL); Supplementary eye fields (SEF)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 36849022110     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm036     Document Type: Article

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