Concurrent performance of two working memory tasks: Potential mechanisms of interference

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 593-601

  Klingberg, Torkel ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031788540     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/8.7.593     Document Type: Article

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