Right prefrontal activity reflects the ability to overcome sleepiness during working memory tasks: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Honma, Motoyasu ^a   Soshi, Takahiro ^a   Kim, Yoshiharu ^a   Kuriyama, Kenichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SLEEP; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958538441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012923     Document Type: Article

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