Dynamics of task sets: Evidence from dense-array event-related potentials

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 133-154

  Poulsen, Catherine ^a,c   Luu, Phan ^a,b   Davey, Colin ^a,b   Tucker, Don M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Electrical Geodesics Inc   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action regulation; Attention; Event related potentials; Executive control; Frontal lobe; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COLOR VISION; CONTROL STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; METHODOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19544367421     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.01.008     Document Type: Article

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