Seeking the neural substrates of visual working memory storage

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 927-946

  Postle, Bradley R ^a   Druzgal, T Jason ^b   D'Esposito, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Fusiform gyrm; Prefrontal cortex; Short term memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0242332256     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70871-2     Document Type: Article

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