A slice of π: An exploratory neuroimaging study of digit encoding and retrieval in a superior memorist

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Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 361-372

  Raz, Amir ^a,b,c   Packard, Mark G ^d   Alexander, Gerianne M ^d   Buhle, Jason T ^a   Zhu, Hongtu ^a   Yu, Shan ^a   Peterson, Bradley S ^a  

^a The New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^b VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Emotion; fMRI; Memory; Method of loci; Mnemonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74749096884     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790902776896     Document Type: Article

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