A positron emission tomography study of the short-term maintenance of verbal information

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 808-822

  Fiez, Julie A ^a   Raffe, Elizabeth A ^a   Balota, David A ^b   Schwarz, Jacob P ^a   Raichle, Marcus E ^a   Petersen, Steven E ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

language; neuroimaging; positron emission tomography; prefrontal cortex; short term memory; working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CORTEX; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030053653     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-02-00808.1996     Document Type: Article

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