Developmental trajectories of magnitude processing and interference control: An fMRI study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2755-2765

  Wood, Guilherme ^a   Ischebeck, Anja ^b   Koppelstaetter, Florian ^b   Gotwald, Thaddaeus ^b   Kaufmann, Liane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Congruity; Developmental fMRI, interference; Magnitude; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; CHILD; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349929314     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp056     Document Type: Article

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