Specific impairment of visual spatial covert attention mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-42

  Sampaio, Joana ^a   Bobrowicz Campos, Elzbieta ^a   André, Rui ^a,b   Almeida, Inês ^a   Faria, Pedro ^a   Januário, Cristina ^a,b   Freire, António ^a,b   Castelo Branco, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Inter hemispheric asymmetries; Parietal cortex; Parkinson's disease; Spatial processing; Visual dorsal stream; Visual impairment; Visual integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650203949     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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