Long-range functional interactions of anterior insula and medial frontal cortex are differently modulated by visuospatial and inductive reasoning tasks

NeuroImage

Volumn 78, Issue , 2013, Pages 426-438

  Ebisch, Sjoerd J H ^a   Mantini, Dante ^b,c   Romanelli, Roberta ^a   Tommasi, Marco ^a   Perrucci, Mauro G ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Colom, Roberto ^d   Saggino, Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cognitive abilities; Fluid reasoning; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Long range functional interactions; Task dependent state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877811368     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.058     Document Type: Article

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