Comparing neural substrates of emotional vs. non-emotional conflict modulation by global control context

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Torres Quesada, Maryem ^a   Korb, Franziska M ^b   Funes, Maria J ^a   Lupiáñez, Juan ^a   Egner, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Congruency sequence effects; Control context; Emotional conflict; fMRI; Non emotional conflict; Proportion congruent effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894055014     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00066     Document Type: Article

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