'What'-then-'where' in visual working memory: An event-related fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 585-597

  Postle, Bradley R ^a   D'Esposito, Mark ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032736653     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892999563652     Document Type: Article

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