Neural fate of ignored stimuli: Dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 992-996

  Yi, Do Joon ^a   Woodman, Geoffrey F ^b   Widders, David ^a   Marois, Pené ^b   Chun, Marvin M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SUBICULUM; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4344573221     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1294     Document Type: Article

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