Pushing the limits: Chronotype and time of day modulate working memory-dependent cerebral activity

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2015, Pages

  Schmidt, Christina ^a   Collette, Fabienne ^a   Reichert, Carolin F ^b   Maire, Micheline ^b   Vandewalle, Gilles ^a   Peigneux, Philippe ^c   Cajochen, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

BOLD activity; Chronotype; Task complexity; Time of day; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CHRONOTROPISM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL LOAD; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; THALAMUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84944754120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00199     Document Type: Article

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