Visual working memory for simple and complex features: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 963-972

  Song, Joo Hyun ^a   Jiang, Yuhong ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Neuroimaging; Posterior parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645730220     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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