Mechanisms underlying flexible adaptation of cognitive control: Behavioral and neuroimaging evidence in a flanker task

Brain Research

Volumn 1421, Issue , 2011, Pages 52-65

  Zurawska Vel Grajewska, Blandyna ^a,b   Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Herrnberger, Bärbel ^a   Kiefer, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Compatibility ratio; Conflict adaptation; Flanker task; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEGOTIATING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054976309     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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