Increased neural efficiency with repeated performance of a working memory task is information-type dependent

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 609-617

  Sayala, Seema ^a   Sala, Joseph B ^b   Courtney, Susan M ^a,c,d,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Object working memory; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial working memory; Task repetition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645712213     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj007     Document Type: Article

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