Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1784-1790

  Egner, Tobias ^a   Hirsch, Joy ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLITION;

EID: 28044463820     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1594     Document Type: Article

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