Neural mechanisms of attentional shifts due to irrelevant spatial and numerical cues

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2615-2624

  Ranzini, Mariagrazia ^a,b,c   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,d,f   Piazza, Manuela ^a,b,d,e   Hubbard, Edward M ^a,b,d  

^a Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit ^*  (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

ADAN; Attention; EDAN; ERPs; Number processing; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650248258     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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