Contralateral cortical organisation of information in visual short-term memory: Evidence from lateralized brain activity during retrieval

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1748-1758

  Fortier Gauthier, Ulysse ^a   Moffat, Nicolas ^a   Dell'Acqua, Roberto ^b   McDonald, John J ^c   Jolicœur, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EEG; TCN; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84862885170     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.032     Document Type: Article

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