Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6984, 2004, Pages 751-754

  Todd, J Jay ^a   Marois, René ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMAN POSTERIOR PAREITAL CORTEX; VISUAL SCENE; VISUAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY (VSTM); VISUAL WORLD;

NEUROLOGY;

MEMORY; VISUALIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PARIETAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1942488239     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02466     Document Type: Article

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