Impact of load-related neural processes on feature binding in visuospatial working memory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kochan, Nicole A ^a,b   Valenzuela, Michael ^a   Slavin, Melissa J ^a,c   McCraw, Stacey ^a   Sachdev, Perminder S ^a,b   Breakspear, Michael ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSITION; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOSPATIAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051958107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023960     Document Type: Article

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