Persistent neural activity in the human frontal cortex when maintaining space that is off the map

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1463-1468

  Tark, Kyeong Jin ^a   Curtis, Clayton E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL LOBE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74949105883     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2406     Document Type: Article

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