Attention modulates spatial priority maps in the human occipital, parietal and frontal cortices

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1879-1887

  Sprague, Thomas C ^a   Serences, John T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRECENTRAL SULCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888387508     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3574     Document Type: Article

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