Dissociable neural effects of task order control and task set maintenance during dual-task processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 613-628

  Stelzel, Christine ^a,c   Kraft, Antje ^a,b   Brandt, Stephan A ^b   Schubert, Torsten ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 41649086583     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20053     Document Type: Article

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