Early event-related cortical activity originating in the frontal eye fields and inferior parietal lobe predicts the occurrence of correct and error saccades

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 358-369

  Ptak, Radek ^a,b   Camen, Christian ^a   Morand, Stéphanie ^a,c   Schnider, Armin ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Frontal eye fields; Inferior parietal lobe; Saccade; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ERROR; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCALP; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957200319     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21025     Document Type: Article

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