The mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: Insights into its role in memory retrieval

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1489-1497

  Kostopoulos, Penelope ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control processes; fMRI; Frontal cortex; Human

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; FACE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038029730     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02574.x     Document Type: Article

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