Detection of unexpected events during spatial navigation in humans: Bottom-up attentional system and neural mechanisms

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1017-1025

  Iaria, Giuseppe ^a   Fox, Christopher J ^a   Chen, Jen Kai ^b   Petrides, Michael ^b   Barton, Jason J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; Navigation; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 40549092709     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06060.x     Document Type: Article

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