Decoding the contents of visual short-term memory from human visual and parietal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 38, 2012, Pages 12983-12989

  Christophe, Thomas B ^a   Hebart, Martin N ^a,b   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84866401528     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0184-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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