Task context and frontal lobe activation in the stroop task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 867-879

  Floden, Darlene ^a,b   Vallesi, Antonino ^a,c   Stuss, Donald T ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650778120     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21492     Document Type: Article

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