The functional neuroanatomy of multitasking: Combining dual tasking with a short term memory task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2251-2260

  Deprez, Sabine ^a,b,c   Vandenbulcke, Mathieu ^a,c   Peeters, Ron ^a,b,c   Emsell, Louise ^a,b,c   Amant, Frederic ^a,c   Sunaert, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Attention; Dual tasking; Executive functioning; FMRI; Memory; MRI; Multitasking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; DUAL TASKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MULTITASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DUAL-TASKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING; FMRI; MEMORY; MRI; MULTITASKING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84883495130     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.024     Document Type: Article

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