The effect of non-visual working memory load on top-down modulation of visual processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1637-1646

  Rissman, Jesse ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a,b   D'Esposito, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distraction; Dual task; Filtering; fMRI; Selective attention; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FACE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UPREGULATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449095970     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.01.036     Document Type: Article

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