Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 34, 2009, Pages 10563-10572

  Mohanty, Aprajita ^a   Egner, Tobias ^a   Monti, Jim M ^a   Mesulam, M Marsel ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69449097802     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1170-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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