Changes in fMRI BOLD response to increasing and decreasing task difficulty during auditory perception of temporal order

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 382-391

  Lewandowska, M ^a   Piatkowska Janko, E ^a,b   Bogorodzki, P ^a,b   Wolak, T ^c   Szelag, E ^a,d  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing   (Poland)

^d SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; FMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Inferior parietal lobule; Prefrontal cortex; Task difficulty; Temporal order

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957221723     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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