Task-irrelevant memory load induces inattentional blindness without temporo-parietal suppression

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3094-3101

  Matsuyoshi, Daisuke ^a,b   Ikeda, Takashi ^a,c   Sawamoto, Nobukatsu ^d   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^b,e   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^d   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention; FMRI; Inattentional blindness; Intraparietal sulcus; Temporo parietal junction; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955272117     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.021     Document Type: Article

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