Working memory templates are maintained as feature-specific perceptual codes

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 115-121

  Sreenivasan, Kartik K ^a   Sambhara, Deepak ^a   Jha, Amishi P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Match enhancement; Sensory recruitment; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959934785     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00776.2010     Document Type: Article

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