Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 178-184 , February 2010

Human frontal eye fields and target switching

  • Neil G. Muggleton

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
    • ,
  • Chi-Hung Juan

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan
    • Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Alan Cowey

      Affiliations

    • Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    • ,
  • Vincent Walsh

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
    • ,
  • Uinsionn O'Breathnach

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.

Received 27 August 2008 ,Revised 31 December 2008 ,Accepted 23 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.01.011

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