Visuospatial imagery is a fruitful strategy for the digit span backward task: A study with near-infrared optical tomography

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 339-342

  Hoshi, Yoko ^a   Oda, Ichiro ^b   Wada, Yukihisa ^b   Ito, Yasunobu ^b   Yutaka Yamashita, ^c   Oda, Motoki ^c   Ohta, Kazuyoshi ^c   Yamada, Yoshifumi ^a   Mamoru Tamura, ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Technology research laboratory   (Japan)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Near infrared spectroscopy; Time resolved measurement; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; NEAR INFRARED OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SHORT SURVEY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0034106855     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00006-9     Document Type: Article

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