Differential effects of parietal and frontal inactivations on reaction times distributions in a visual search task

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Wardak, Claire ^a   Hamed, Suliann Ben ^a   Olivier, Etienne ^a,b   Duhamel, Jean René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distribution; FEF; Inactivation; LATER model; LIP; Manual reaction times; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL SEARCH;

EID: 84864911630     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00039     Document Type: Article

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