Dissociable stages of problem solving (II): First evidence for process-contingent temporal order of activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 170-176

  Ruh, Nina ^a,b   Rahm, Benjamin ^c   Unterrainer, Josef M ^c   Weiller, Cornelius ^a,b   Kaller, Christoph P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Planning; Prefrontal cortex; Problem solving; Tower of London task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIGHT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84864322492     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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