Spatial Memory Activation of the Parietal Cortex Measured with Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging in the Finger-Maze of the Morris Water Maze Analogue for Humans

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 227-238

  Saito, Kotaro ^a   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

allocentric; fingermaze; human; Morris water maze; parietal cortex; prefrontal cortex; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 33646409570     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/revneuro.2006.17.1-2.227     Document Type: Article

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