Visual short-term memory: Activity supporting encoding and maintenance in retinotopic visual cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-178

  Sneve, Markus H ^a   Alnæs, Dag ^a   Endestad, Tor ^a   Greenlee, Mark W ^b   Magnussen, Svein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Low level vision; Multi voxel pattern analysis; Sensory recruitment; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTOPIC CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864405373     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.053     Document Type: Article

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