Encoding of prospective tasks in the human prefrontal cortex under varying task loads

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17342-17349

  Momennejad, Ida ^a,b,c,d   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE MEMORY; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84886692940     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0492-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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