Cortical Representations of Cognitive Control and Working Memory Are Dependent Yet Non-Interacting

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 557-565

  Harding, Ian H ^a   Harrison, Ben J ^a   Breakspear, Michael ^b   Pantelis, Christos ^a   Yücel, Murat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Dual task; FMRI; Frontoparietal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960420810     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu208     Document Type: Article

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