Between-task competition and cognitive control in task switching

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1429-1438

  Yeung, Nick ^a   Nystrom, Leigh E ^b   Aronson, Jessica A ^b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Task switching; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 32544459717     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3109-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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