Top-down attentional control in Parkinson's disease: Salient considerations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 848-859

  Cools, Roshan ^a   Rogers, Robert ^b   Barker, Roger A ^c   Robbins, Trevor W ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CATECHOLAMINE DEPLETION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77950526268     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21227     Document Type: Article

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