A neural measure of precision in visual working memory

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 754-761

  Ester, Edward F ^a   Anderson, David E ^b   Serences, John T ^a   Awh, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECALL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84875501880     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00357     Document Type: Article

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