Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobes

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5408, 1999, Pages 1657-1661

  Smith, Edward E ^a,b   Jonides, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0033548638     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5408.1657     Document Type: Review

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64. Supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging and the Office of Naval Research. We are indebted to the members of our laboratory for discussion of these issues and to D. Badre for his substantial contributions to the preparation of this manuscript.