Impaired attentional selection following lesions to human pulvinar: Evidence for homology between human and monkey

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4054-4059

  Snow, Jacqueline C ^a,b   Allen, Harriet A ^a   Rafal, Robert D ^c   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Salience; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONKEY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULVINAR; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PULVINAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 62649103180     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810086106     Document Type: Article

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