Cortical activity time locked to the shift and maintenance of spatial attention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1384-1394

  Ikkai, Akiko ^a   Curtis, Clayton E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Control; Eye field; fMRI; Saccade; Salience; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44449113104     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm171     Document Type: Article

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