Performance degradation and altered cerebral activation during dual performance: Evidence for a bottom-up attentional system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-239

  Gazes, Yunglin ^a   Rakitin, Brian C ^a   Steffener, Jason ^a   Habeck, Christian ^a   Butterfield, Brady ^a   Ghez, Claude ^a   Stern, Yaakov ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up attention system; Compensatory tracking; Dual task interference; FMRI; Psychological refractory period; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EYE TRACKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952320419     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.02.036     Document Type: Article

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