Structural connectivity for visuospatial attention: Significance of ventral pathways

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-129

  Umarova, Roza M ^a,b   Saur, Dorothee ^a,b   Schnell, Susanne ^b   Kaller, Christoph P ^b   Vry, Magnus Sebastian ^a,b   Glauche, Volkmar ^a,b   Rijntjes, Michel ^a   Hennig, Jürgen ^b   Kiselev, Valerij ^b   Weiller, Cornelius ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disconnection syndrome; Fiber tracking; Neglect; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PUTAMEN; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 72049084025     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp086     Document Type: Article

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