"Smart inhibition": Electrophysiological evidence for the suppression of conflict-generating task rules during task switching

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-308

  Meiran, Nachshon ^c   Hsieh, Shulan ^a   Chang, Chi Chih ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict monitoring; Event related potentials; Inhibition; Reaction time; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051638060     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-011-0037-y     Document Type: Article

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