Frontal Eye Fields Control Attentional Modulation of Alpha and Gamma Oscillations in Contralateral Occipitoparietal Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1638-1647

  Marshall, Tom R ^a   O’shea, Jacinta ^a,b   Jensen, Ole ^a   Bergmann, Til O ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsal attentional network; Frontal eye field; Magnetoencephalography; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ALPHA OSCILLATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; ATTENUATION; CONTRALATERAL OCCIPITOPARIETAL CORTEX; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; FEMALE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAMMA OSCILLATION; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GAMMA RHYTHM; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL FIELD;

OXYGEN;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84921915575     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3116-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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