Prefrontal dynamics underlying rapid instructed task learning reverse with practice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 14245-14254

  Cole, Michael W ^a,b   Bagic, Anto ^c   Kass, Robert ^d   Schneider, Walter ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958608044     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1662-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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