Causal evidence for a privileged working memory state in early visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 158-162

  Zokaei, Nahid ^a,b   Manohar, Sanjay ^a,b   Husain, Masud ^a,b   Feredoes, Eva ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84891467089     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2899-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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