Practice-related improvement in working memory is modulated by changes in processing external interference

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1779-1789

  Berry, Anne S ^a   Zanto, Theodore P ^a   Rutman, Aaron M ^a   Clapp, Wesley C ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349273734     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00179.2009     Document Type: Article

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