Neural substrates of attentive listening assessed with a novel auditory Stroop task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Christensen, Thomas A ^a   Lockwood, Julie L ^a   Almryde, Kyle R ^a   Plante, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate; Anterior insula; Attention; Auditory stroop; Conflict processing; fMRI; Medial frontal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; VOICE;

EID: 79953011314     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00236     Document Type: Article

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