Dopamine and the management of attentional resources: Genetic markers of striatal D2 dopamine predict individual differences in the attentional blink

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3576-3585

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a   Slagter, Heleen A ^a   de Rover, Mischa ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; NORADRENALIN; NORADRENALIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BLINKING; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DOPAMINE AND CAMP-REGULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN 32; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053508346     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00049     Document Type: Article

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