Human posterior parietal cortex maintains color, shape and motion in visual short-term memory

Brain Research

Volumn 1213, Issue , 2008, Pages 91-97

  Kawasaki, Masahiro ^a,b   Watanabe, Masataka ^b   Okuda, Jiro ^c   Sakagami, Masamichi ^c   Aihara, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color; Feature integration; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motion; Parietal cortex; Shape; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLOR VISION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 44449156213     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.03.037     Document Type: Article

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