Gains of item-specific training in visual working memory and their neural correlates

Brain Research

Volumn 1466, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-55

  Zimmer, Hubert D ^a   Popp, Christian ^b   Reith, Wolfgang ^b   Krick, Christoph ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese word form; Expertise; Memory capacity; Visual word form area; Visual working memory; Working memory training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NERVE CELL; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84862994743     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.05.019     Document Type: Article

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