Visual selection and the human frontal eye fields: Effects of frontal transcranial magnetic stimulation on partial report analyzed by Bundesen's theory of visual attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 44, 2011, Pages 15904-15913

  Hung, June ^a,b   Driver, Jon ^b   Walsh, Vincent ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BUNDESEN THEORY; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; EYE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80155148019     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2626-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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