Content- and task-specific dissociations of frontal activity during maintenance and manipulation in visual working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4465-4471

  Mohr, Harald M ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b   Linden, David E J ^a,c,d  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Memory; Prefrontal; Premotor; Spatial; Visual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646848231     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5232-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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