Cholinergic enhancement differentially modulates neural response to encoding during face identity and face location working memory tasks

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 238, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 999-1008

  Handjaras, Giacomo ^a,b   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a   Szczepanik, Joanna ^c   Pietrini, Pietro ^a,b   Furey, Maura L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors; cholinergic system; face perception; fMRI; visual cortex; working memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FACE PERCEPTION; FMRI; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHYSOSTIGMINE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884264536     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370213497326     Document Type: Article

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