A common prefrontal-parietal network for mnemonic and mathematical recoding strategies within working memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 778-786

  Bor, Daniel ^a   Owen, Adrian M ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chunking; Digit span; Neuroimaging; Parietal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 33947279022     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhk035     Document Type: Article

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