A meta-Analysis of executive components of working memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 264-282

  Nee, Derek Evan ^a,b   Brown, Joshua W ^a   Askren, Mary K ^b,c   Berman, Marc G ^d   Demiralp, Emre ^b   Krawitz, Adam ^e   Jonides, John ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

central executive; cognitive control; executive function; fMRI; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM;

EID: 84872314242     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs007     Document Type: Article

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