Dissociation between unconscious motor response facilitation and conflict in medial frontal areas

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 332-340

  D'Ostilio, Kevin ^a   Garraux, Gaëtan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cingulate; Fmri; Motor; Priming; Subliminal; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; BOLD SIGNAL; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855944213     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07941.x     Document Type: Article

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