Frontal cortex mediates unconsciously triggered inhibitory control

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 8053-8062

  Van Gaal, Simon ^a   Ridderinkhof, K Richard ^a   Fahrenfort, Johannes J ^a   Scholte, H Steven ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Cognition; Cognitive control; Consciousness; Inhibition; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 51149097776     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1278-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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