Does "taskdifficulty" explain "task-induceddeactivation?"

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Gilbert, Sam J ^a   Bird, Geoffrey ^a,b   Frith, Chris D ^c,d   Burgess, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Default mode; fMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Stimulus independent thought; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867124116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00125     Document Type: Article

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