Stimulus-driven reorienting in the ventral frontoparietal attention network: The role of emotional content

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Frank, David W ^a   Sabatinelli, Dean ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; FMRI; Salience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; THINKING; VENTAL FRONTOPARIETAL ATTENTION NETWORK; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84864237207     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00116     Document Type: Article

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