Visual working memory capacity and the medial temporal lobe

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3584-3589

  Jeneson, Annette ^a   Wixted, John T ^a   Hopkins, Ramona O ^b,c   Squire, Larry R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84857887062     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6444-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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