Domain-general mechanisms of complex working memory span

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 550-559

  Chein, Jason M ^a   Moore, Adam B ^b   Conway, Andrew R A ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THALAMUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957933345     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.07.067     Document Type: Article

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