Dissociation of attention and intention in human posterior parietal cortex: An fMRI study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2083-2091

  Hu, Siyuan ^a   Bu, Yong ^a,b   Song, Yiying ^a,b   Zhen, Zonglei ^b   Liu, Jia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Evidence accumulation; Intraparietal sulcus; Salience map; Temporal parietal junction; Visuomotor transformation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65749101848     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06757.x     Document Type: Article

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