Reasoning and working memory: Common and distinct neuronal processes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1241-1253

  Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Knauff, Markus ^a,c   Fangmeier, Thomas ^a   Spreer, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Executive functions; fMRI; Imagery; Mental models; Occipital cortex; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0038062746     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00016-2     Document Type: Article

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