Involvement of right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in ill-structured design cognition: An fMRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1312, Issue , 2010, Pages 79-88

  Gilbert, Sam J ^a   Zamenopoulos, Theodore ^b   Alexiou, Katerina ^b   Johnson, Jeff H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; fMRI; Ill structured tasks; Planning; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILL STRUCTURED DESIGN TASK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTION ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 73649096847     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.11.045     Document Type: Article

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