Dissociation and convergence of the dorsal and ventral visual working memory streams in the human prefrontal cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 488-498

  Takahashi, Emi ^a,b,d   Ohki, Kenichi ^c   Kim, Dae Shik ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tractography; Functional connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Prefrontal cortex; Short term memory; Visual streams

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VENTRAL INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868479110     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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