Two principles of organization in the prefrontal cortex are cognitive hierarchy and degree of automaticity

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jeon, Hyeon Ae ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MODEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891591336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3041     Document Type: Article

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