Neural mechanisms underlying the cost of task switching: An ERP study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Li, Ling ^a   Wang, Meng ^a   Zhao, Qian Jing ^a   Fogelson, Noa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864495597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042233     Document Type: Article

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