Top-down visual activity underlying VSTM and preparatory attention

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1425-1427

  Stokes, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Delay activity; Preparatory activity; VSTM

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREPARATORY ATTENTION; RESPONSE TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955803073     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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