Role of frontal and parietal cortices in the control of bottom-up and top-down attention in humans

Brain Research

Volumn 1344, Issue , 2010, Pages 173-184

  Li, Ling ^a,b   Gratton, Caterina ^a   Yao, Dezhong ^b   Knight, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Attention; ERP; P300; Pop out; Time frequency; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953912694     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.05.016     Document Type: Article

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