Basic operations in working memory: Contributions from functional imaging studies

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 172-179

  Bledowski, Christoph ^a   Kaiser, Jochen ^a   Rahm, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Control; Executive functions; FMRI; Frontal; Memory; Parietal; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 77955280090     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.041     Document Type: Review

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