A long-range fronto-parietal 5- to 10-Hz network predicts "top-down" controlled guidance in a task-switch paradigm

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1996-2008

  Phillips, Jessica M ^a   Vinck, Martin ^b   Everling, Stefan ^a,c   Womelsdorf, Thilo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Attention; Cognitive control; Prefrontal cortex; Theta oscillations

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MACACA MULATTA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SACCADES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84904329379     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht050     Document Type: Article

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