Steady-state visual evoked potentials reveal frontally-mediated working memory activity in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-195

  Perlstein, William M ^a,b   Cole, Michael A ^a   Larson, Michael ^a   Kelly, Kiesa ^a   Seignourel, Paul ^a   Keil, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Low resolution electromagnetic tomography; Prefrontal cortex; Steady state visual evoked potentials; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0038369840     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00226-X     Document Type: Article

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