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Journal List > Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci > v.353(1373); Aug 29, 1998

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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1998 August 29; 353(1373): 1353–1362.
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Human cortical mechanisms of visual attention during orienting and search.
M Corbetta and G L Shulman
Department of Neurology, McDonnell Center for the Study of Higher Brain Function, Washington University, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Abstract
Functional anatomical studies indicate that a set of neural signals in parietal and frontal cortex mediates the covert allocation of attention to visual locations across a wide variety of visual tasks. This frontoparietal network includes areas, such as the frontal eye field and supplementary eye field. This anatomical overlap suggests that shifts of attention to visual locations of objects recruit areas involved in oculomotor programming and execution. Finally, the fronto-parietal network may be the source of spatial attentional modulations in the ventral visual system during object recognition or discrimination.
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