The roles of timing and task order during task switching

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-109

  Dreher, Jean Claude ^a   Koechlin, Etienne ^b   Ali, Syed Omar ^c   Grafman, Jordan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Task switching, prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036741224     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.2002.1169     Document Type: Article

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