Prefrontal Cortex Asymmetry for Memory Encoding of Words and Abstract Shapes

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 404-409

  Floel, Agnes ^a,b   Poeppel, David ^c   Buffalo, Elizabeth A ^d   Braun, Allen ^e   Wu, Carolyn W H ^a   Seo, Hyae Jung ^a   Stefan, Katja ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^b   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; Frontal cortex; Nonverbal; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Verbal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1942453881     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh002     Document Type: Article

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