Strategic resource allocation in the human brain supports cognitive coordination of object and spatial working memory

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1330-1348

  Jackson, Margaret C ^a   Morgan, Helen M ^a   Shapiro, Kimron L ^a   Mohr, Harald ^b   Linden, David E J ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conjunction; fMRI; SEM; Visuospatial; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COLOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960142996     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21112     Document Type: Article

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