The medial temporal lobe and the left inferior prefrontal cortex jointly support interference resolution in verbal working memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1967-1979

  Öztekin, Ilke ^a   Curtis, Clayton E ^a   McElree, Brian ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349259377     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21146     Document Type: Article

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