Interaction of working memory and long-term memory in the medial temporal lobe

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2868-2878

  Axmacher, Nikolai ^a   Schmitz, Daniel P ^a,b   Weinreich, Ilona ^b   Elger, Christian E ^a   Fell, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Long term memory; Medial temporal lobe; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56449087366     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn045     Document Type: Article

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