Evidence for quantitative domain dominance for verbal and spatial working memory in frontal and parietal cortex

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 897-911

  Walter, Henrik ^a   Bretschneider, Volker ^a   Grön, Georg ^a   Zurowski, Bartosz ^a   Wunderlich, Arthur P ^a   Tomczak, Reinhard ^a   Spitzer, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domain dominance; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0142099218     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70869-4     Document Type: Article

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