Flexible, capacity-limited activity of posterior parietal cortex in perceptual as well as visual short-term memory tasks

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1788-1798

  Mitchell, Daniel J ^a   Cusack, Rhodri ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Human; Parietal lobe; Perceptual organization; Visual attention; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47649111373     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm205     Document Type: Article

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