Ventromedial frontal cortex is critical for guiding attention to reward-predictive visual features in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 37, 2015, Pages 12813-12823

  Vaidya, Avinash R ^a   Fellows, Lesley K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Lesion study; Prefrontal cortex; Reward; Value; Ventromedial frontal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; AGED; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FORECASTING; INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SPATIAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84941785218     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1607-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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