Contralateral delay activity provides a neural measure of the number of representations in visual working memory

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1963-1968

  Ikkai, Akiko ^a   McCollough, Andrew W ^b   Vogel, Edward K ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951210080     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00978.2009     Document Type: Article

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