Role of frontal cortex in attentional capture by singleton distractors

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-373

  de Fockert, Jan W ^a   Theeuwes, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attentional capture; FMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Selective attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868487492     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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