Early top - Down control of visual processing predicts working memory performance

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1224-1234

  Rutman, Aaron M ^a   Clapp, Wesley C ^a   Chadick, James Z ^a   Gazzaley, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952023830     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21257     Document Type: Article

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