Flexible rule use: Common neural substrates in children and adults

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 329-339

  Wendelken, Carter ^a   Munakata, Yuko ^b   Baym, Carol ^c   Souza, Michael ^d   Bunge, Silvia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Development; Executive function; fMRI; Task switching

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE RULE GUIDED BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRE SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RULE SWITCHING; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS INCONGRUENCY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861911791     PISSN: 18789293     EISSN: 18789307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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