Delineating the neural signatures of tracking spatial position and working memory during attentive tracking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 659-668

  Drew, Trafton ^a,b   Horowitz, Todd S ^a,b   Wolfe, Jeremy M ^a,b   Vogel, Edward K ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651515407     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1339-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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