Selective activation of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex in the human brain during active retrieval processing

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1164-1170

  Cadoret, Geneviève ^a   Pike, G Bruce ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Inferior prefrontal cortex; Recall; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0035783976     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816X.2001.01737.x     Document Type: Article

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