The dynamics of cognitive control: Evidence for within-trial conflict adaptation from frequency-tagged EEG

Psychophysiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 591-600

  Scherbaum, Stefan ^a   Fischer, Rico ^a   Dshemuchadse, Maja ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict monitoring; Dynamics; EEG; Executive functions; Frequency tagging

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953277232     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01137.x     Document Type: Article

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