Frontoparietal representations of task context support the flexible control of goal-directed cognition

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 10743-10755

  Waskom, Michael L ^a   Kumaran, Dharshan ^a,b   Gordon, Alan M ^a   Rissman, Jesse ^a,c   Wagner, Anthony D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive control; Decision making; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITIVE CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905715515     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5282-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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