Neural substrates of cognitive capacity limitations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 11252-11255

  Buschman, Timothy J ^a   Siegel, Markus ^a,b   Roy, Jefferson E ^a   Miller, Earl K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Hemisphere; Interference model; Slot model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HAPLORHINI; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960595148     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104666108     Document Type: Article

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