Explicit processing of verbal and spatial features during letter-location binding modulates oscillatory activity of a fronto-parietal network

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3846-3854

  Poch, Claudia ^a   Campo, Pablo ^a   Parmentier, Fabrice B R ^b,c   Ruiz Vargas, José María ^d   Elsley, Jane V ^e   Castellanos, Nazareth P ^a   Maestú, Fernando ^a,f   del Pozo, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binding; Episodic buffer; Magnetoencephalography; Oscillatory activity; Prefrontal cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 78149410870     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.015     Document Type: Article

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