Prefrontal cortex organization: Dissociating effects of temporal abstraction, relational abstraction, and integration with fMRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2377-2387

  Nee, Derek Evan ^a   Jahn, Andrew ^b   Brown, Joshua W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Executive function; Hierarchical; PFC; Rule representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIONAL ABSTRACTION; RESPONSE TIME; TEMPORAL ABSTRACTION; TIME PERCEPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906983504     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht091     Document Type: Article

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