Prefrontal cortical involvement in visual working memory

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 299-310

  Nielsen Bohlman, Lynn ^a   Knight, Robert T ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dorsolateral frontal cortex; Human; N4; P3; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032703303     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00035-X     Document Type: Article

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