The capacity constraint in the prefrontal and parietal regions for coordinating dual arithmetic tasks

Brain Research

Volumn 1199, Issue , 2008, Pages 100-110

  Kuo, Bo Cheng ^a   Yeh, Yei Yu ^a   Chen, Der Yow ^a   Liang, Keng Chen ^a   Chen, Jyh Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Arithmetic operation; Capacity constraint; Dual task processing; Executive process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 40049108003     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.12.070     Document Type: Article

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