Cognitive neuroscience: searching for the bottleneck in the brain.

Full Abstract

People simply cannot do two things at once, as shown by research on the so-called psychological refractory period. A new neuroimaging study has now localized the response-selection bottleneck underlying the psychological refractory period to a frontoparietal network.

Author information

Author/s: Spence, Charles (C);

Affiliation: Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. charles.spence(-atsign-)psy.ox.ac.uk

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Current biology : CB (Curr Biol), published in England. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Oct; vol 18 (issue 20) : pp R965-8

Dates: Created 2008/10/29; Completed 2008/12/09;

PMID: 18957255, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00)

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