NEURAL BASIS OF RESPONSE SELECTION

描述（申请人的摘要）：本项目将调查 使用功能磁成像（fMRI）的反应选择的神经基础。 功能成像在认知功能中发挥着越来越重要的作用。 神经科学研究，包括记忆，视觉和运动的主题 控制 拟议的实验是一种尝试，整合行为 以及这三个区域的成像发现， 侧翼任务侧翼任务已被证明在行为上引起反应 对不引起明显反应的刺激的选择过程。 一 程序开发，以隔离这些选择的神经位点 过程，并检查其敏感性的刺激属性。 与 这种新方法，对选择性 注意力和反应的竞争可以被创造出来。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): This project will investigate the neural basis of response selection using functional magnetic imaging (fMRI). Functional imaging is playing an increasingly significant role in cognitive neuroscience research, including the topics of memory, vision and motor control. The proposed experiments are an attempt to integrate behavioral and imaging findings in these three areas using a paradigm called the flanker task The flanker task has been shown behaviorally to evoke response selection processes for stimuli that do not elicit an overt response. A procedure is developed to isolate the neural loci of these selection processes and to examine their sensitivity to stimulus properties. With this new method, a new understanding of the interaction between selective attention and response competition can be created.