Integration of diverse information in working memory within the frontal lobe

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-90

  Prabhakaran, V ^a   Narayanan, K ^a   Zhao, Z ^a   Gabriel, J D E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033993991     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/71156     Document Type: Article

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