Oscillatory activity during maintenance of spatial and temporal information in working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-357

  Roberts, Brooke M ^a   Hsieh, Liang Tien ^b   Ranganath, Charan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Prefrontal cortex; Spatial; Temporal; Theta oscillation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BLINKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872351729     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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