Brain activity during divided and selective attention to auditory and visual sentence comprehension tasks

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Moisala, Mona ^a   Salmela, Viljami ^a,b   Salo, Emma ^a   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,b   Vuontela, Virve ^a   Salonen, Oili ^c   Alho, Kimmo ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Dual tasking; Functional MRI; Selective attention; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933676684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00086     Document Type: Article

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