Uncoupling cognitive workload and prefrontal cortical physiology: A PET rCBF study

NeuroImage

Volumn 7, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 296-303

  Goldberg, Terry E ^a   Berman, Karen Faith ^a   Fleming, Kirsten ^a   Ostrem, Jill ^a   Van Horn, John D ^a   Esposito, Giuseppe ^a   Mattay, Venkata S ^a   Gold, James M ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dual task; Frontal lobe; Humans; PET; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0031818998     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0338     Document Type: Article

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