The impact of auditory working memory training on the fronto-parietal working memory network

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Schneiders, Julia A ^a   Opitz, Bertram ^a   Tang, Huijun ^b   Deng, Yuan ^b   Xie, Chaoxiang ^c   Li, Hong ^d   Mecklinger, Axel ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory; fMRI; N back task; Plasticity; Training; Visual; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY WORKING MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84864229389     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00173     Document Type: Article

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