Choosing where to attend and the medial frontal cortex: An fMRI study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1397-1406

  Taylor, Paul C J ^a,b   Rushworth, Matthew F S ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349093786     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90241.2008     Document Type: Article

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