Greater working memory load results in greater medial temporal activity at retrieval

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2561-2571

  Schon, Karin ^a   Quiroz, Yakeel T ^a   Hasselmo, Michael E ^a   Stern, Chantal E ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed match to sample; Episodic memory; Hippocampus; Neuroimaging; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68749108650     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp006     Document Type: Article

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