Functional topography of a distributed neural system for spatial and nonspatial information maintenance in working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 341-356

  Sala, Joseph B ^a   Rämä, Pia ^a,c,d   Courtney, Susan M ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d Helsinki Brain Research Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Faces; fMRI; Object; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial; Vision; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037210490     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00166-5     Document Type: Article

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