Auditory working memory load impairs visual ventral stream processing: Toward a unified model of attentional load

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-446

  Klemen, Jane ^a,b   Büchel, Christian ^a   Bühler, Mira ^c   Menz, Mareike M ^d   Rose, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OCCIPITAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749125428     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21204     Document Type: Article

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