Compositionality of rule representations in human prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1237-1246

  Reverberi, Carlo ^a,b   Görgen, Kai ^a   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

control functions; decoding; fMRI; frontal lobe; neural code

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84861562734     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr200     Document Type: Article

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