The topography of visuospatial attention as revealed by a novel visual field mapping technique

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1447-1460

  Brefczynski Lewis, Julie A ^a   Datta, Ritobrato ^a   Lewis, James W ^a   DeYoe, Edgar A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 67349266130     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21005     Document Type: Article

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