Challenge-driven attention: Interacting frontal and brainstem systems

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue MAR, 2008, Pages

  Raizada, Rajeev D S ^a   Poldrack, Russell A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive resources; Locus coeruleus; Noradrenaline; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890874773     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.09.003.2007     Document Type: Article

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