Distributed patterns of activity in sensory cortex reflect the precision of multiple items maintained in visual short-term memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 6516-6523

  Emrich, Stephen M ^a   Riggall, Adam C ^b   La Rocque, Joshua J ^b   Postle, Bradley R ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84875991124     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5732-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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