Bottom-up and top-down attention: Different processes and overlapping neural systems

Neuroscientist

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 509-521

  Katsuki, Fumi ^a   Constantinidis, Christos ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

intraparietal sulcus; monkey; neurophysiology; posterior parietal; prefrontal

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; HAPLORHINI; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84905910403     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858413514136     Document Type: Review

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