Regional brain activity during tasks devoted to the central executive of working memory

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 411-417

  Collette, F ^a   Salmon, E ^b   Van Der Linden, M ^a   Chicherio, C ^b   Belleville, S ^c,d   Degueldre, C ^b   Delfiore, G ^b   Franck, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central executive; PET; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032954120     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(98)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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