Neural activity predicts individual differences in visual working memory capacity

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6984, 2004, Pages 748-751

  Vogel, Edward K ^a   Machizawa, Maro G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

LOW-CAPACITY INDIVIDUALS; MEMORY CAPACITY; MEMORY SYSTEM; NEURAL ACTIVITY;

NEUROLOGY;

MEMORY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1942455789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02447     Document Type: Article

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