Neural oscillations associated with item and temporal order maintenance in working memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 10803-10810

  Hsieh, Liang Tien ^a   Ekstrom, Arne D ^a,b   Ranganath, Charan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALPHA OSCILLATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OSCILLATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA OSCILLATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; THETA RHYTHM; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 79960948709     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0828-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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