Competition for priority in processing increases prefrontal cortex's involvement in top-down control: An event-related fMRI study of the stroop task

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 212-222

  Milham, Michael P ^a   Banich, Marie T ^b   Barad, Vikram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Attentional control; Conflict; fMRI; Frequency; Oddball; Prefrontal; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0037767524     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00108-3     Document Type: Article

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