Control of attention shifts between vision and audition in human cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 47, 2004, Pages 10702-10706

  Shomstein, Sarah ^a,b   Yantis, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional control; Auditory attention; Crossmodal attention; fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior parietal cortex; PPC; SPL; Superior parietal lobule; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 9344231410     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2939-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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