Attention to neglect

John D E Gabrieli; Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.03.002

Attention to neglect

Neuron. 2007 Mar 15;53(6):776-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.03.002.

Authors

John D E Gabrieli¹, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli

Affiliation

¹ Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

PMID: 17359913
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.03.002

Abstract

Patients with spatial neglect fail to attend to stimuli in the contralesional visual world. He et al. used fMRI to reveal how disrupted functional connectivity, independent of task-evoked activation, in ventral and dorsal attentional networks may explain behavioral impairment in neglect and recovery from acute neglect.

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MeSH terms

Attention / physiology*
Brain / physiology*
Brain / physiopathology
Functional Laterality
Humans
Perceptual Disorders / physiopathology*