Cognitive Functions of the Posterior Parietal Cortex: Top-down and bottom-up attentional control

Although much less is known about human parietal cortex than that of homologous monkey cortex, recent studies, employing neuroimaging and neuropsychological methods, have begun to elucidate increasingly fine-grained functional and structural distinctions.This review is focused on recent neuroimaging...

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Main Author: Sarah eShomstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2012.00038/full