Brain circuit for cognitive control is shared by task and language switching

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1752-1765

  Baene, Wouter De ^a,b,c   Duyck, Wouter ^a   Brass, Marcel ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^b,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941202019     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00817     Document Type: Article

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