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

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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

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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.

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

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Thiebaut de Schotten, M., Dell' Acqua, F., Forkel, S. J., Simmons, A., Vergani, F., Murphy, D. G. M. & Catani, M., Dec 2011, In: Nature Neuroscience. 14, 12, p. 1617-1617 1 p.
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