Attentional shifts induced by uninformative number symbols modulate neural activity in human occipital cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3419-3428

  Goffaux, Valérie ^a,b,c   Martin, Romain ^a   Dormal, Giulia ^d   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Schiltz, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

FMRI; Numerical cognition; Parietal cortex; Visual system; Visuo spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868314031     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.046     Document Type: Article

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