Hemispheric differences in the voluntary control of spatial attention: Direct evidence for a right-hemispheric dominance within frontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1332-1342

  Duecker, Felix ^a   Formisano, Elia ^a   Sack, Alexander T ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879910316     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00402     Document Type: Article

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