Neural correlates of ongoing conscious experience: Both task-unrelatedness and stimulus-independence are related to default network activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Stawarczyk, David ^a   Majerus, Steve ^a   Maquet, Pierre ^a   D'Argembeau, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WANDERING BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BASAL METABOLISM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951884271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016997     Document Type: Article

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