Does excessive memory load attenuate activation in the prefrontal cortex? Load-dependent processing in single and dual tasks: Functional magnetic resonance imaging study

NeuroImage

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 210-225

  Jaeggi, Susanne M ^a   Seewer, Ria ^a   Nirkko, Arto C ^b   Eckstein, Doris ^a   Schroth, Gerhard ^b   Groner, Rudolf ^a   Gutbrod, Klemens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dual task processing; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Memory load; n back task; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR VISION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0043240269     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00098-3     Document Type: Article

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