Long-Range Attention Networks: Circuit Motifs Underlying Endogenously Controlled Stimulus Selection

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 682-700

  Womelsdorf, Thilo ^a   Everling, Stefan ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLICULUS; COORDINATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THETA RHYTHM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84946439707     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.08.009     Document Type: Review

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