Activation of human prefrontal cortex during spatial and nonspatial working memory tasks measured by functional MRI

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 600-611

  McCarthy, Gregory ^a,b   Puce, Aina ^a,b   Constable, R Todd ^b   Krystal, John H ^b   Gore, John C ^b   Goldman Rakic, Patricia ^b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0029843882     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/6.4.600     Document Type: Article

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