Neural mechanisms of expert skills in visual working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 43, 2006, Pages 11187-11196

  Moore, Christopher D ^a,b   Cohen, Michael X ^b   Ranganath, Charan ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Expertise; fMRI; Inferior; Learning; Prefrontal; Temporal; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33751093760     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1873-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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