"what" and "where" in the intraparietal sulcus: An fMRI study of object identity and location in visual short-term memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2478-2485

  Harrison, Amabilis ^a,b   Jolicoeur, Pierre ^a   Marois, René ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; functional neuroimaging; parietal cortex; visual memory capacity; visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBICULUM; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956569752     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp314     Document Type: Article

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