Common coding of auditory and visual spatial information in working memory

Brain Research

Volumn 1230, Issue , 2008, Pages 158-167

  Lehnert, Günther ^a   Zimmer, Hubert D ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Event related potentials; Location memory; Slow potentials; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 54049148101     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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