Unconscious inhibition separates two forms of cognitive control

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 11134-11139

  Boy, Frederic ^a   Husain, Masud ^b   Sumner, Petroc ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic; Executive; Flanker task; Negative compatibility; Voluntary

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MODULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954640084     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1001925107     Document Type: Article

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