Dissociating working memory from task difficulty in human prefrontal cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1373-1380

  Barch, Deanna M ^a,b   Braver, Todd S ^b   Nystrom, Leigh E ^a   Forman, Steven D ^a   Noll, Douglas C ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Broca's area; Continuous performance test; Neuroimaging; Parietal cortex; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 0030668529     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00072-9     Document Type: Article

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