Dynamic goal states: Adjusting cognitive control without conflict monitoring

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 126-136

  Scherbaum, Stefan ^a   Dshemuchadse, Maja ^a   Ruge, Hannes ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Cognitive control; Conflict adaptation; Conflict monitoring; Goal representations; Multistable attractor dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GOAL ATTAINMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 84864409933     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.021     Document Type: Article

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