Anterior prefrontal contributions to implicit attention control

Brain Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 254-266

  Pollmann, Stefan ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontopolar; Implicit; Learning; Prefrontal; Unconscious

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; REVIEW;

EID: 84885483783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci2020254     Document Type: Review

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