Top-down suppression of incompatible motor activations during response selection under conflict

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-149

  Klein, Pierre Alexandre ^a   Petitjean, Charlotte ^a   Olivier, Etienne ^a   Duque, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conflict; Corticospinal excitability; Inhibition; Response selection; Top down control; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROL SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; INFORMED CONSENT; NEUROIMAGING; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

CONFLICT; CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; INHIBITION; RESPONSE SELECTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891628604     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.005     Document Type: Article

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