Neural system for controlling the contents of object working memory in humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1595-1603

  Roth, Jennifer K ^a   Serences, John T ^a,b   Courtney, Susan M ^a,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

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

^d KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Frontal; Maintenance; Parietal; Update

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33749522008     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj096     Document Type: Article

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