Neural evidence for a distinction between short-term memory and the focus of attention

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-79

  Lewis Peacock, Jarrod A ^a   Drysdale, Andrew T ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^b   Postle, Bradley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81455148250     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00140     Document Type: Article

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