Hemispheric asymmetry in visuotopic posterior parietal cortex emerges with visual short-term memory load

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 12581-12588

  Sheremata, Summer L ^a,b   Bettencourt, Katherine C ^a,b   Somers, David C ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SUBICULUM; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957202124     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2689-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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