Monitoring Demands for Executive Control: Shared Functions between Human and Nonhuman Primates

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 15-27

  Mansouri, Farshad A ^a   Egner, Tobias ^b   Buckley, Mark J ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anterior cingulate cortex; conflict monitoring; executive control; nonhuman primate; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CINGULATE GYRUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PRIMATES;

EID: 85007578568     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.11.001     Document Type: Review

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