The noradrenergic alpha2 agonist clonidine modulates behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of human attentional orienting and alerting.

We examined whether the known noradrenergic attenuation of the alerting effect (the beneficial effect of a warning cue) results from an underlying effect of noradrenaline on temporal orienting (orienting toward a particular moment in time). Following a within-subjects, counterbalanced design, 10 hea...

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Main Authors: Coull, J, Nobre, A, Frith, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2001