Challenging a decade of brain research on task switching: Brain activation in the task-switching paradigm reflects adaptation rather than reconfiguration of task sets

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 639-651

  de Baene, Wouter ^a,b   Kühn, Simone ^a,b   Brass, Marcel ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Abstract representations; Adaptation; Cognitive control; Reconfiguration; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856244621     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21234     Document Type: Article

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