The role of the lateral intraparietal area in orienting attention and its implications for visual search

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1982-1990

  Bisley, James W ^a,b,c   Mirpour, Koorosh ^a   Arcizet, Fabrice ^a   Ong, Wei S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LIP; Priority map; Saccade; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958061951     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07700.x     Document Type: Article

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