Auditory cortex and anterior cingulate cortex sources of the early evoked gamma-band response: Relationship to task difficulty and mental effort

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2294-2306

  Mulert, Christoph ^a   Leicht, Gregor ^a   Pogarell, Oliver ^a   Mergl, Roland ^a   Karch, Susanne ^a   Juckel, Georg ^a   Möller, Hans Jürgen ^a   Hegerl, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACC; ERP; Event related potential; LORETA; Mental effort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34247636127     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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