More workload on the central executive of working memory, less attention capture by novel visual distractors: Evidence from an fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 517-524

  Spinks, John A ^a   Zhang, John X ^a   Fox, Peter T ^b   Gao, Jia Hong ^b   Hai Tan, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention capture; Central executive; fMRI; Novelty; Orienting response; Visual selective attention; Working memory load

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPINE POSITION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 5644242969     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.06.025     Document Type: Article

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