Ongoing brain activity fluctuations directly account for intertrial and indirectly for intersubject variability in stroop task performance

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2612-2619

  Coste, Clio P ^a,b,c   Sadaghiani, Sepideh ^a,b,c   Friston, Karl J ^d   Kleinschmidt, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BOLD fMRI; executive function; human brain; neuroimaging; resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960680252     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr050     Document Type: Article

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