Facilitation of tactile working memory by top-down suppression from prefrontal to primary somatosensory cortex during sensory interference

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 387-390

  Savolainen, Petri ^a,b   Carlson, Synnöve ^a,c,d   Boldt, Robert ^a,c   Neuvonen, Tuomas ^a,e   Hannula, Henri ^e   Hiltunen, Jaana ^c   Salonen, Oili ^b   Ma, Yuan Ye ^f   Pertovaara, Antti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e Nexstim Oy   (Finland)

^f KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Middle frontal gyrus; Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation; Prefrontal cortex; Sensory gating; Sensory interference; Tactile working memory; Top down control; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GATING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRACTOGRAPHY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952707971     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.01.053     Document Type: Article

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