Is consciousness necessary for conflict adaptation? a state of the art

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Desender, Kobe ^a   van den Bussche, Eva ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Conflict adaptation; Unconscious perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROOP TEST; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84933673971     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00003     Document Type: Article

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