Neural activity in the hippocampus predicts individual visual short-term memory capacity

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 606-615

  von Allmen, David Yoh ^a,b   Wurmitzer, Karoline ^a,b   Martin, Ernst ^a,b,c   Klaver, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Neuroscience Center Zurich and Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hippocampus; Memory capacity; Posterior parietal cortex; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879477722     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22121     Document Type: Article

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