Cognitive flexibility in internet addicts: FMRI evidence from difficult-to-easy and easy-to-difficult switching situations

Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 677-683

  Dong, Guangheng ^a   Lin, Xiao ^a   Zhou, Hongli ^a   Lu, Qilin ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Attention shifting; Cognitive flexibility; Executive control; Internet addiction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION; MALE; PRECUNEUS; STROOP TEST; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ATTENTION SHIFTING; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; EXECUTIVE CONTROL; INTERNET ADDICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891659297     PISSN: 03064603     EISSN: 18736327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.028     Document Type: Article

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