A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention

Michel Thiebaut De Schotten; Flavio Dell' Acqua; Stephanie J. Forkel; Andrew Simmons; Francesco Vergani; Declan Murphy; Marco Catani

doi:10.1038/nn.2905

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A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention

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Michel Thiebaut De Schotten, Flavio Dell' Acqua, Stephanie J. Forkel, Andrew Simmons, Francesco Vergani, Declan Murphy, Marco Catani

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1245-1246
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	14
Issue number	10
Early online date	18 Sep 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2905
E-pub ahead of print	18 Sep 2011
Published	Oct 2011

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Right hemisphere dominance for visuospatial attention is characteristic of most humans, but its anatomical basis remains unknown. We report the first evidence in humans for a larger parieto-frontal network in the right than left hemisphere, and a significant correlation between the degree of anatomical lateralization and asymmetry of performance on visuospatial tasks. Our results suggest that hemispheric specialization is associated with an unbalanced speed of visuospatial processing.

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