Magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex dissociates fragile visual short-term memory from visual working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1578-1588

  Sligte, Ilja G ^a   Wokke, Martijn E ^a   Tesselaar, Johannes P ^a   Steven Scholte, H ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Fragile VSTM; Sensory memory; TMS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRAGILE VISUAL SHORT TERM MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL AREA V4; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955809460     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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