Interference and facilitation effects during selective attention: An h215o pet study of stroop task performance

NeuroImage

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 264-272

  Carter, Cameron S ^a   Mintun, Mark ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; GALLIUM 68; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEMANTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029565206     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1995.1034     Document Type: Article

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