Individual differences in distinct components of attention are linked to anatomical variations in distinct white matter tracts

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2010, Pages

  Niogi, Sumit ^a   Mukherjee, Pratik ^b   Ghajar, Jamshid ^a,c   McCandliss, Bruce D ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Brain Trauma Foundation   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior corona radiata; Attention; Conflict; Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Internal capsule; Orienting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77957264703     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.002.2010     Document Type: Article

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