Differentiating allocation of resources and conflict detection within attentional control processing

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 594-602

  Blasi, Giuseppe ^a,b   Goldberg, Terry E ^a   Elvevåg, Brita ^a   Rasetti, Roberta ^a   Bertolino, Alessandro ^a,b   Cohen, Jessica ^a   Alce, Guilna ^a   Zoltick, Brad ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a   Mattay, Venkata S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Variable attentional control task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33847067567     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05283.x     Document Type: Article

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