After a 25-year battle, it organized 5,200 textile workers at Fieldcrest Cannon plants in North Carolina four years ago, and after a 17-year fight, it unionized 3,400 workers at J. P. Stevens, a landmark task depicted in the 1979 movie "Norma Rae".
Specifically, the superior parietal cortex was selectively activated during the landmark task.
A lateralized version of the landmark task was developed to accentuate the dissociation between viewer-centered and stimulus-centered reference frames.
An investigation of hemispatial neglect using the landmark task, Brain and Cognition 1995; 27: 59–78] has shown that in neglect patients cues work by inducing orientational biases rather than via the alteration of subjective length perception.
While several functional brain imaging studies have demonstrated involvement of the STG in tasks involving explicit stimulus-centered judgments, prior rTMS studies targeting the right STG did not find the expected neglect-like rightward bias in size judgments using the conventional landmark task.
In this study, we found a rightward shift of spatial attention bias, relative to a leftward ("pseudoneglect") bias at baseline (as indexed by the landmark task) using a bi-hemispheric montage (P5-aTCS/P6-cTDCS, Dual tDCS) to affect the balance of activity between the left versus right posterior parietal cortices (PPCs).
All 155 subjects performed the word generation task, 154 performed the landmark task, and only 86 performed the faces task.
For the landmark task collected accuracy and RTs (for correct trials only) were recorded during the scanning session.
On the landmark task the difference between right and left-handers was negligible (χ2 1, N = 154 = 0.01, P = .920).920
A total of 212 T2*-weighted volumes were acquired during the landmark task, corresponding to 48 volumes per condition of interest per subject.
