He who is well prepared has half won the battle: An fMRI study of task preparation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 726-735

  Manelis, Anna ^a,b   Reder, Lynne M ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR THE NEURAL BASIS OF COGNITION   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; multivoxel pattern classification; n back task; task preparation; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFORMATION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; N BACK TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924947980     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht262     Document Type: Article

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