The Congruency Effect in the Posterior Medial Frontal Cortex Is More Consistent with Time on Task than with Response Conflict

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Weissman, Daniel H ^a   Carp, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFLICT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876934528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062405     Document Type: Article

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