The neural substrates associated with attentional resources and difficulty of concurrent processing of the two verbal tasks

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1998-2009

  Mizuno, Kei ^a,b   Tanaka, Masaaki ^b   Tanabe, Hiroki C ^c   Sadato, Norihiro ^c   Watanabe, Yasuyoshi ^a,b  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Fusiform gyrus; Inferior frontal gyrus; Kana pick out test; Middle temporal gyrus; Superior parietal lobule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; VOWEL;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84862841054     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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