Neural activity in the human brain signals logical rule identification

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1526-1537

  Tachibana, Kaori ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a   Miura, Naoki ^c   Kawashima, Ryuta ^b,d   Horie, Kaoru ^b   Sato, Shigeru ^b   Tanji, Jun ^e   Mushiake, Hajime ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349292168     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90659.2008     Document Type: Article

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