Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 170-177

  Aron, Adam R ^a,b   Robbins, Trevor W ^c   Poldrack, Russell A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY;

COGNITIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL CORTEX;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE FIXATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MEMORY; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 1842524325     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.010     Document Type: Review

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