Management of attentional resources in within-modal and cross-modal divided attention tasks: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1267-1275

  Vohn, Rene ^a,c   Fimm, Bruno ^a   Weber, Jochen ^b   Schnitker, Ralph ^b   Thron, Armin ^b   Spijkers, Will ^b   Willmes, Klaus ^a   Sturm, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Cingulate cortex; Claustrum; Divided attention; fMRI; Inferior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 36849080273     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20350     Document Type: Article

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