Load-dependent roles of frontal brain regions in the maintenance of working memory

NeuroImage

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 216-226

  Rypma, Bart ^a   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^a   Desmond, John E ^a   Glover, Gary H ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032796480     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0404     Document Type: Article

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