Dissociating the effects of Sternberg working memory demands in prefrontal cortex

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-114

  Altamura, Mario ^a,b   Elvevåg, Brita ^b   Blasi, Giuseppe ^b,c   Bertolino, Alessandro ^c,d   Callicott, Joseph H ^b   Weinberger, Daniel R ^b   Mattay, Venkata S ^b   Goldberg, Terry E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d IRCCSS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Healthy adults; Load; Maintenance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 33847181739     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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