Parallel and serial processing in dual-tasking differentially involves mechanisms in the striatum and the lateral prefrontal cortex

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3131-3142

  Yildiz, Ali ^a,b   Beste, Christian ^a,b  

^a Cognitive Neurophysiology Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ^*  (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dual tasking; fMRI; Lateral prefrontal cortex; Parallel processing; Response selection; Serial processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DUAL-TASK PERFORMANCE (TEST); ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PITCH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD; PUTAMEN; SERIAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFRACTORY PERIOD, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84942337392     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-014-0847-0     Document Type: Article

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