Asymmetrical brain activity induced by voluntary spatial attention depends on the visual hemifield: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-298

  Harasawa, Masamitsu ^a   Shioiri, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inhibitory interaction; Near infrared spectroscopy; Visual attention; Visual hemifields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79952039313     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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