Neural bases of the interactions between spatial attention and conscious perception

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1269-1279

  Chica, Ana B ^a,b   Paz Alonso, Pedro M ^c   Valero Cabré, Antoni ^a,d,e   Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a,f  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

conscious perception; dorsal and ventral attentional networks; fMRI; functional connectivity; spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; VISION;

EID: 84877285823     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs087     Document Type: Article

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