From an executive network to executive control: A computational model of the n-back task

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3598-3619

  Chatham, Christopher H ^a   Herd, Seth A ^a   Brant, Angela M ^a   Hazy, Thomas E ^a   Miyake, Akira ^a   O'Reilly, Randy ^a   Friedman, Naomi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SENSORY CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 80053502766     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00047     Document Type: Article

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