Dynamic upper and lower visual field preferences within the human dorsal frontoparietal attention network

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1036-1049

  Kraft, Antje ^a   Sommer, Wieland H ^a,b,c   Schmidt, Sein ^a,b   Brandt, Stephan A ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endogenous attention; fMRI; Topographic mapping; Visual attention; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DORSAL FRONTOPARIETAL; EYE DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958771229     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21087     Document Type: Article

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