The neural correlates of human working memory for haptically explored object orientations

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1637-1649

  Kaas, Amanda L ^a,b   Van Mier, Hanneke ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FMRI; Parieto occipital cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Sensorimotor cortex; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OBJECT MANIPULATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADULT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 34547669240     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl074     Document Type: Article

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