Parietal contributions to visual working memory depend on task difficulty

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Jones, Kevin T ^a   Berryhill, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; PPC; Task difficulty; tDCS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84867123664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00081     Document Type: Article

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