Dynamic activation of frontal, parietal, and sensory regions underlying anticipatory visual spatial attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 13880-13889

  Simpson, Gregory V ^a   Weber, Darren L ^a,b   Dale, Corby L ^a,c   Pantazis, Dimitrios ^d   Bressler, Steven L ^e   Leahy, Richard M ^d   Luks, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^c NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^d University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^e FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CUNEUS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; LATERAL OCCIPITAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053252056     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1519-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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