Activation of the caudal anterior cingulate cortex due to task-related interference in an auditory stroop paradigm

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3043-3056

  Haupt, Sven ^a   Axmacher, Nikolai ^a   Cohen, Michael X ^a   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fell, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Attention; Cognitive control; Functional connectivity; Inhibition; Interference; Prefrontal cortex; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650773553     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20731     Document Type: Article

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