Dissociating emotion and attention functions in the pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus

Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 191-196

  Arend, Isabel ^a   Henik, Avishai ^b   Okon Singer, Hadas ^c  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Medial pulvinar; Working memory updating

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR PULVINAR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL PROCESSING; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MEDIAL PULVINAR; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; POSTERIOR PULVINAR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; PULVINAR NUCLEUS OF THE THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ATTENTION; EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PULVINAR;

EID: 84925643344     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: 19311559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/neu0000139     Document Type: Article

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