The dependence of span and delayed-response performance on prefrontal cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1303-1315

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Prefrontal cortex; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SERIAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOLITION;

EID: 0032828687     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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