Degree of automaticity and the prefrontal cortex

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 244-250

  Jeon, Hyeon Ae ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

BA 44; Cognitive control; Degree of automaticity; Hierarchical processing; Prefrontal cortex; Syntactic hierarchy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COGNITIVE CONTROL; DEGREE OF AUTOMATICITY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION; HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING; LINGUISTIC HIERARCHIES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

PROCESS CONTROL;

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN AUTOMATICITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPREHENSION; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DORSOMEDIAL STRIATUM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COGNITION; LANGUAGE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84928583485     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.03.003     Document Type: Review

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