A layered neural architecture for the consolidation, maintenance, and updating of representations in visual working memory

Brain Research

Volumn 1299, Issue , 2009, Pages 17-32

  Johnson, Jeffrey S ^a   Spencer, John P ^b   Schöner, Gregor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Change detection; Neural field model; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

BRAIN; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70449725211     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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