Competition in working memory reduces frontal guidance of visual selection

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1159-1169

  Soto, David ^a   Greene, Ciara M ^a   Chaudhary, Anum ^a   Rotshtein, Pia ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; prefrontal; vision; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860141343     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr190     Document Type: Article

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