Enhancing dual-task performance with verbal and spatial working memory training: Continuous monitoring of cerebral hemodynamics with NIRS

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 1014-1026

  McKendrick, Ryan ^a   Ayaz, Hasan ^b   Olmstead, Ryan ^a   Parasuraman, Raja ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Hemodynamics; Near infrared spectroscopy; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex; Working memory training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECTROMETER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; HEMODYNAMICS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY TRAINING;

BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; BRAIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84889659032     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.103     Document Type: Article

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