Modulation of slow brain potentials by working memory load in spatial and nonspatial auditory tasks

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 913-922

  Rämä, Pia ^a   Paavilainen, Liisa ^a   Anourova, Irina ^a   Alho, Kimmo ^b,c   Reinikainen, Kalevi ^b   Sipilä, Sampsa ^a   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Human; Memory load; Pitch; Slow event related potentials; Sound location

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0342424725     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00019-1     Document Type: Article

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