A neural region of abstract working memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2852-2863

  Cowan, Nelson ^a   Li, Dawei ^a   Moffitt, Amanda ^a   Becker, Theresa M ^a   Martin, Elizabeth A ^a   Scott Saults, J ^a   Christ, Shawn E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUSTATORY CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860390238     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21625     Document Type: Article

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