How the brain resolves high conflict situations: Double conflict involvement of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1201-1209

  Wittfoth, Matthias ^a   Schardt, Dina M ^b   Fahle, Manfred ^a   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Double response conflict; Post error adaptation; Putamen; Simon task

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 57649221476     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.09.026     Document Type: Article

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