Changing patterns of brain activation during maze learning

Brain Research

Volumn 793, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 29-38

  Van Horn, John Darrell ^a,b   Gold, James M ^a   Esposito, Giuseppe ^a   Ostrem, Jill L ^a   Mattay, Venkata ^a   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a   Berman, Karen Faith ^a  

^a St Elizabeths Hospital   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Frontal lobe; Maze learning; Positron emission tomography; Procedural memory; Regional cerebral blood flow; Visuospatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032543156     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00051-1     Document Type: Article

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