Human anterior prefrontal cortex encodes the 'what' and 'when' of future intentions

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-148

  Momennejad, Ida ^a,b   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,c,d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior prefrontal cortex; Brodmann area 10; Decoding; FMRI; Future intention; Multivariate decoding; PFC; Prospective memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENTION; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859017113     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.02.079     Document Type: Article

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