Evolution of working memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL2, 2013, Pages 10371-10378

  Carruthers, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Default network; Episodic memory; Mental rehearsal; Primate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DEFAULT NETWORK; EPISODIC MEMORY; MENTAL REHEARSAL; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LITERATURE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84879310261     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301195110     Document Type: Article

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