Reward Associations Reduce Behavioral Interference by Changing the Temporal Dynamics of Conflict Processing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Krebs, Ruth M ^a,b   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b   Appelbaum, Lawrence G ^a,c   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VOLUNTEER; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STROOP TEST;

EID: 84872225669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053894     Document Type: Article

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