At your own peril: An ERP study of voluntary task set selection processes in the medial frontal cortex

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 286-296

  Forstmann, Birte U ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^b   Bledowski, Christoph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 37549059229     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.7.4.286     Document Type: Article

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