Decoding attended information in short-term memory: An EEG study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 127-142

  LaRocque, Joshua J ^a   Lewis Peacock, Jarrod A ^b   Drysdale, Andrew T ^a   Oberauer, Klaus ^c   Postle, Bradley R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

EID: 84870338146     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00305     Document Type: Article

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