At the intersection of attention and memory: The mechanistic role of the posterior parietal lobe in working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1306-1315

  Berryhill, Marian E ^a,b,c   Chein, Jason ^a   Olson, Ingrid R ^a,b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balint's syndrome; Parietal lobe; Recall; Recognition; Strategy; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PARIETAL LOBE; RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954420739     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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