Task difficulty manipulation reveals multiple demand activity but no frontal lobe hierarchy

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 532-540

  Crittenden, Ben M ^a,b   Duncan, John ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Information Cascade; Multiple demand; Prefrontal cortex; Rule Abstraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CASCADE; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RULE ABSTRACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INFORMATION CASCADE; MULTIPLE DEMAND; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RULE ABSTRACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THINKING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896322734     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs333     Document Type: Article

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