The number of attentional foci and their precision are dissociated in the posterior parietal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1341-1349

  Shim, Won Mok ^a   Alvarez, G A ^b   Vickery, T J ^c   Jiang, Y V ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentive tracking; FMRI; Posterior parietal cortex; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL STRESS MANAGEMENT; DISSOCIATION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MONITORING; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77952875000     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp197     Document Type: Article

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