Interference between two concurrent tasks is associated with activation of overlapping fields in the cortex

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-8

  Klingberg, Torkel ^a   Roland, Per E ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography (PET); Reaction time; Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF); Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0030768701     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(97)00010-4     Document Type: Article

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