A parametric study of prefrontal cortex involvement in human working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-62

  Braver, Todd S ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b   Nystrom, Leigh E ^a   Jonides, John ^c   Smith, Edward E ^c   Noll, Douglas C ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030830595     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1996.0247     Document Type: Article

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