Conflict monitoring versus selection for-action in anterior cingulate cortex

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6758, 1999, Pages 179-181

  Botvinick, Matthew ^a,b   Nystrom, Leigh E ^c   Fissell, Kate ^d   Carter, Cameron S ^b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0033547441     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/46035     Document Type: Article

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