Searching for a salient target involves frontal regions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2464-2477

  Wardak, Claire ^a   Vanduffel, Wim ^a,b,c   Orban, Guy A ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

bottom up; fMRI; monkey; top down; visual search

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77956609916     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp315     Document Type: Article

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