Common capacity-limited neural mechanisms of selective attention and spatial working memory encoding

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 827-838

  Fusser, Fabian ^a   Linden, David E J ^a,b   Rahm, Benjamin ^a,c   Hampel, Harald ^a   Haenschel, Corinna ^a,d   Mayer, Jutta S ^a,e  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive processing; Eye movements; FMRI; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052456681     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07794.x     Document Type: Article

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