Capacity-speed relationships in prefrontal cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Prabhakaran, Vivek ^a,b   Rypma, Bart ^c   Narayanan, Nandakumar S ^d   Meier, Timothy B ^a   Austin, Benjamin P ^e   Nair, Veena A ^a   Naing, Lin ^b   Thomas, Lisa E ^f   Gabrieli, John D E ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Research Center   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL TASK; WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY; WORKING MEMORY PROCESSING SPEED; BEHAVIOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TIME;

BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81755184033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027504     Document Type: Article

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