The role of the episodic buffer in working memory for language processing

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-28

  Rudner, Mary ^a   Rönnberg, Jerker ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Episodic buffer; Executive functions; Hippocampus; Sign language; Working memory

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPATIAL MEMORY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MULTILINGUALISM; NERVE NET; PHONETICS; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 39849083327     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-007-0183-x     Document Type: Review

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