Published in

Nature Research, Nature Neuroscience, 10(14), p. 1245-1246, 2011

DOI: 10.1038/nn.2905

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

A lateralized brain network for visuospatial attention

Journal article published in 2011 by Michel Thiebaut de Schotten ORCID, Mt de Schotten, Flavio Dell'Acqua, Stephanie J. Forkel, Andrew Simmons, Francesco Vergani, Declan G. M. Murphy, Marco Catani
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Upload
Orange circle
Postprint: archiving restricted
Upload
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Policy details
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

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.