Salience representation in the parietal and frontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 918-930

  Zenon, Alexandre ^a   Filali, Nabil ^a   Duhamel, Jean René ^b   Olivier, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT ANGULAR GYRUS; SALIENCE MAP; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952026951     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21233     Document Type: Article

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