Attentional orienting to mnemonic representations: Reduction of load-sensitive maintenance-related activity in the intraparietal sulcus

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2805-2811

  Trapp, Sabrina ^a   Lepsien, Jöran ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Intraparietal sulcus; Load; Rehearsal; Storage; Visual working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84865595580     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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