Functional neuroanatomy of interference in overlapping dual tasks: An fMRI study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 733-746

  Schubert, Torsten ^a   Szameitat, Andre J ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dual task interference; fMRI; Inferior frontal sulcus; Neural basis of behavior; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1642394248     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(03)00198-8     Document Type: Article

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