Individual differences in working memory capacity and distractor processing: Possible contribution of top-down inhibitory control

Brain Research

Volumn 1335, Issue , 2010, Pages 63-73

  Minamoto, Takehiro ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^b   Osaka, Naoyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Executive function; Individual difference; Inhibition; Prefrontal cortex; Top down modulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIVIDUALITY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952241728     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.03.088     Document Type: Article

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