When things are better or worse than expected: The medial frontal cortex and the allocation of processing resources

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1112-1119

  Potts, Geoffrey F ^a   Martin, Laura E ^a   Burton, Philip ^a   Montague, P Read ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MORPHOLOGY; MOTIVATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVEFORM;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD;

EID: 33745973891     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.7.1112     Document Type: Article

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