Anatomical Substrates of the Alerting, Orienting and Executive Control Components of Attention: Focus on the Posterior Parietal Lobe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yin, Xuntao ^a,b,c   Zhao, Lu ^b   Xu, Junhai ^a   Evans, Alan C ^b   Fan, Lingzhong ^d   Ge, Haitao ^a   Tang, Yuchun ^a   Khundrakpam, Budhachandra ^b   Wang, Jian ^c   Liu, Shuwei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; PRECUNEUS; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870608746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050590     Document Type: Article

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