The neural basis of task switching changes with skill acquisition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Jimura, Koji ^a,b   Cazalis, Fabienne ^c   Stover, Elena R S ^c   Poldrack, Russell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Executive control; Functional MRI; Learning; Multivariate pattern information; Procedural memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIRROR REVERSED WORD READING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PLAIN WORD READING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; SKILL; SKILL ACQUISITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK SWITCHING; TRAINING;

EID: 84901426978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00339     Document Type: Article

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