Mapping the pathways of information processing from sensation to action in four distinct sensorimotor tasks

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4167-4186

  Ivanoff, Jason ^a   Branning, Philip ^a   Marois, René ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck of information processing; Dual tasking; fMRI; Psychological refractory period; Response selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349933917     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20837     Document Type: Article

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