Neural signatures of stimulus features in visual working memory-a spatiotemporal approach

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-197

  Morgan, Helen M ^a   Jackson, Margaret C ^a   Klein, Christoph ^a   Mohr, Harald ^b   Shapiro, Kimron L ^a   Linden, David E J ^a,c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c North Wales Clinical School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EEG; FMRI; Source analysis; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72049107505     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp094     Document Type: Article

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