Intermediate levels of hippocampal activity appear optimal for associative memory formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Xiao ^a,b,c   Qin, Shaozheng ^a,d   Rijpkema, Mark ^a   Luo, Jing ^b   Fernández, Guillén ^a,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL TASK; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049300064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013147     Document Type: Article

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