The neural basis of monitoring goal progress

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Benn, Yael ^a   Webb, Thomas L ^a   Chang, Betty P I ^a   Sun, Yu Hsuan ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a,b   Farrow, Tom F D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict monitoring; Cuneus; Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; Error monitoring; Progress monitoring; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOREGULATION; CUNEUS; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933678663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00688     Document Type: Article

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