Task switching and novelty processing activate a common neural network for cognitive control

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1734-1748

  Barcelo, Francisco ^a,b   Escera, Carles ^a   Corral, Maria J ^b   Periáñez, Jose A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33749434654     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.10.1734     Document Type: Article

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