When memory is not enough: Electrophysiological evidence for goal-dependent use of working memory representations in Guiding visual attention

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2650-2664

  Carlisle, Nancy B ^a   Woodman, Geoffrey F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GOALS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84860390326     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21602     Document Type: Article

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