Left mid-ventrolateral prefrontal cortex: Underlying principles of function

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1037-1049

  Kostopoulos, Penelope ^a   Petrides, Michael ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control processes; fMRI; Frontal; Humans; Memory; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 40549085748     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06066.x     Document Type: Article

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