The contribution of the anterior cingulate cortex to executive processes in cognition

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-57

  Carter, Cameron S ^a,b   Botvinick, Matthew M ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Cognition; Conflict; Error detection; Executive control; fMRI

Indexed keywords

CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCALP; SKIN ELECTRODE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032840059     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.1999.10.1.49     Document Type: Review

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