Development of spatial and verbal working memory capacity in the human brain

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-332

  Thomason, Moriah E ^a,c   Race, Elizabeth ^a   Burrows, Brittany ^a   Whitfield Gabrieli, Susan ^b   Glover, Gary H ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; CHILD; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59949093279     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21028     Document Type: Article

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