New approaches to the study of human brain networks underlying spatial attention and related processes

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-162

  Driver, Jon ^a   Blankenburg, Felix ^b   Bestmann, Sven ^c   Ruff, Christian C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Extinction; FEF; FMRI; Lesion; Neglect; Parietal; TMS; TMS fMRI

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77957674836     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2205-7     Document Type: Review

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