Cascade of neural processing orchestrates cognitive control in human frontal cortex

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue FEBRUARY2016, 2016, Pages

  Tang, Hanlin ^a,b   Yu, Hsiang Yu ^c,d   Chou, Chien Chen ^c,d   Crone, Nathan E ^e   Madsen, Joseph R ^b   Anderson, William S ^e   Kreiman, Gabriel ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; ORBITAL CORTEX; STROOP TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961880405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.12352     Document Type: Article

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