Cerebellum and cognition: Evidence for the encoding of higher order rules

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1433-1443

  Balsters, Joshua H ^a   Whelan, Christopher D ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Ramnani, Narender ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cerebellum; cognition; fMRI; prefrontal cortex; rule retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FMRI; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RULE RETRIEVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877283856     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs127     Document Type: Article

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