The relationship between spatial attention and saccades in the frontoparietal network of the monkey

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1973-1981

  Wardak, Claire ^a   Olivier, Etienne ^a,b   Duhamel, Jean René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cortex; Frontal eye field; Inactivation; Lateral intraparietal area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FRONTAL LOBE; HAPLORHINI; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; SACCADES; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958063758     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07710.x     Document Type: Article

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