Implicit sequence learning and working memory: Correlated or complicated?

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2001-2006

  Janacsek, Karolina ^a   Nemeth, Dezso ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Implicit versus explicit learning; Sequence learning; Skill learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; COORDINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; WORKING MEMORY;

DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; IMPLICIT VERSUS EXPLICIT LEARNING; SEQUENCE LEARNING; SKILL LEARNING; WORKING MEMORY;

CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84882622013     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.012     Document Type: Review

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