Stimulus-specific suppression preserves information in auditory short-term memory

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

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12961-12966

  Linke, Annika C ^a   Vicente Grabovetsky, Alejandro ^a   Cusack, Rhodri ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Memory capacity; Multivoxel pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HESCHL GYRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; PARIETAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961226746     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102118108     Document Type: Article

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