Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distracters

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1475-1484

  Egner, Tobias ^a,b   Etkin, Amit ^a,c   Gale, Seth ^a   Hirsch, Joy ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cognitive control; Conflict monitoring; Emotion regulation; Lateral prefrontal cortex; Rostral anterior cingulate cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 44449135896     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm179     Document Type: Article

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