Prefrontal cortex hemispheric specialization for categorical and coordinate visual spatial memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1560-1568

  Slotnick, Scott D ^a   Moo, Lauren R ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Item memory; Lateralization; Perception; Source memory; Visual memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33744933933     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.018     Document Type: Article

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