Parallel processing of spatial and serial order information before moving to a remembered target

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3703-3708

  Smyrnis, Nikolaos ^a   D'Avossa, Giovanni ^b   Theleritis, Christos ^a   Mantas, Asimakis ^a   Ozcan, Alpay ^c   Evdokimidis, Ioannis ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 19344368457     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00972.2004     Document Type: Article

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