"What" and "where" in visual working memory: A computational neurodynamical perspective for integrating fMRI and single-neuron data

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 683-701

  Deco, Gustavo ^a   Rolls, Edmund T ^b   Horwitz, Barry ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CELL POPULATION; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INFORMATION; INTERNEURON; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL TASK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2442514456     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904323057380     Document Type: Article

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