TBSS and probabilistic tractography reveal white matter connections for attention to object features

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 219, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2159-2171

  Mayer, Katja M ^a,b   Vuong, Quoc C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature attention; Integrity performance correlation; Multi featured objects; Superior longitudinal fasciculus; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LATERAL OCCIPITO TEMPORAL CORTEX; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OCCIPITO TEMPORAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATISTICS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TRACT BASED SPATIAL STATISTICS; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSVERSE TEMPORAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84914175002     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0631-6     Document Type: Article

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