The many faces of preparatory control in task switching: Reviewing a decade of fMRI research

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-35

  Ruge, Hannes ^a   Jamadar, Sharna ^b,c   Zimmermann, Uta ^a   Karayanidis, Frini ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action set; Attentional set; Biased competition; Cognitive flexibility; Goal representation; Proactive control; Proactive interference; Reconfiguration; Set shifting; Task demand; Task preparation; Task set

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL JUNCTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREPARATORY CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING;

ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84870868648     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21420     Document Type: Article

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