A candidate for the attentional bottleneck: Set-size specific modulation of right TPJ during attentive enumeration

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 728-736

  Vetter, Petra ^a,b   Butterworth, Brian ^a   Bahrami, Bahador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650380109     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21472     Document Type: Article

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