The brain network underlying serial visual search: Comparing overt and covert spatial orienting, for activations and for effective connectivity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2946-2958

  Fairhall, S L ^a   Indovina, I ^a,b   Driver, J ^c   MacAluso, E ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Conjunction search; Dynamic causal modeling; FMRI; Oculomotor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE TRACKING; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450277290     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp064     Document Type: Article

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