Neural correlate of filtering of irrelevant information from visual working memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Nasr, Shahin ^a,b   Moeeny, Ali ^a,b   Esteky, Hossein ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 53749101366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003282     Document Type: Article

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